Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$144.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition of 1500 hundred copies of which 500 for sale in England, which were not numbered, and 1000 in the USA, and this copy signed by Clare Leighton. Hard cover with cream vellum spine and decorative boards with wear to corners. Titles on the spine which is slightly discoloured and has a horizontal tear across part of the lower spine which has been partly repaired. Illustrations from 12 woodcuts by Clare Leighton including frontispiece, xv, 485 untrimmed pages. Published as a limited edition in 1929 this volume is in good to very good edition and attractively illustrated by Clare Leighton who has signed the book.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition thus 1929. Limited edition signed by Clare Leighton. With tipped-in woodcuts and text illustrations by Clare Leighton. Top edges gilt. Some foxing to page edges and endpapers. Bound in the publishers quarter vellum with decorative paper sides. Paper slightly faded at the edges. Vellum spine is foxed along the edges of the boards. Small split at the head of the spine. Gilt lettering is slightly darkened and faded. Else good copy of a very well illustrated edition. 485 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1929.
Price: US$226.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. Quarter vellum over patterned paper boards, with gilt spine lettering. Naturally darkened vellum spine, with a lighter spot around the lettering. Top edge gilt. Very light foxing to the front endpapers, else very clean throughout and the binding tight and square. Limited to 1500 copies, of which 500 are for sale in England and 1000 for sale in the United States. This is he British edition, signed by illustrator Clare Leighton. Nice copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native. Macmillan and Co, London UK, 1929.
Price: US$565.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Return of the Native signed by the illustrator, Claire Leighton. This edition is limited to 1500 copies of which 500 were for sale unnumbered in the UK and 1000 were numbered and distributed in the USA. All woodcut illustrations intact and contents clean. Top edge gilt. Bound in quarter vellum over hand made paper boards.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom