Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited to 325 large paper copies signed by Hardy. Quarter vellum over blue marbled boards with fragile renmants of rare dustjacket ( now wrapped in mylar). Gilt title to spine. Pages uncut. Includes 41 wood engravings by Vivien Gribble. Foldout map to rear. Very minor foxing to rear not affecting text with light scuffing to spine (see image). Overall an attractive clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 8 x 11.5 in (20 x 29 cm)
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
HARDY, THOMAS. Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman. Macmillan & Co., Limited, London, 1926.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter vellum spine, gilt, lightly soiled and creased on top, and slightly bumped on the bottom. Covers are marbled boards, bumped corners. Limited edition (325 copies), signed by the author on the limited edition page. Residue inside front and rear cover and yellowing to the first blank page after. Frontis protected by tissue. Text block clean. 41 wood engravings by Vivien Gribble. Fold-out map of Wessex at the rear of the book, featuring a red border. Printed on rice paper in a small 4to format. Lacks rare dust jacket. This limited edition of his acclaimed novel was published two years after the story's stage debut and just two years before Hardy died. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
HARDY, THOMAS. Tess of the D'urbervilles: a Pure Woman. Macmillan & Co, London, 1926.
Price: US$4520.08 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small 4to. Gilt lettered quarter vellum over marbled boards. Rough cut front and bottom edges. Wrapped in decorative dust jacket. Edition limited to 325 large paper copies only signed by Hardy. Forty one wood engravings by Vivien Gribble. Very sharp copy with uncut pages and minimal wear. Uncommon dust jacket with some creasing darkening at spine and scuffing near edges. It has been professionally laid down on rice paper.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$5788.25 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, one of 325 large paper copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author. The text is taken from that of the Wessex Edition and incorporates the author's revisions. Large octavo (278 x 195 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Folding map at rear. With 41 wood engravings by Vivien Gribble. Some minor marks to covers; a near-fine and attractive copy with many unopened gatherings.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$5800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed limited illustrated edition; one of 325 large paper copies printed on handmade paper and signed by Thomas Hardy. Large Octavo. Bound in publisher's original marbled boards over vellum spine lettered in gilt, with 41 wood engravings by Vivien Gribble. Near Fine with marble paper rubbed through at top and bottom edges and corners, vellum slightly soiled. A few spots of browning to contents, pages lightly tanned. A fantastic copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.