GOOD to VERY GOOD CONDITION

 

This sale is for a vintage hardback FIRST EDITION entitled “Hardy,” subtitled “Novelist and Poet,” by Desmond Hawkins (1908-1999) with 11 photographic and other illustrations.

 

It was published by David & Charles (Publishers) Limited, of Newton Abbott, London and Vancouver, and the 1976 FIRST BRITISH EDITION.

 

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet.  Most of his novels were set in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex (Dorset), with Casterbridge being Dorchester and Shaston being Shaftesbury, and consists of characters struggling against their circumstances and passions.  Although most people know him for his stories, his poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well regarded as his novels.

 

The contents include:

 

·       Foreword

·       Early Years

·       London and Weymouth 1862-1870

·       A Cornish Romance 1870-1872

·       A Wife and a Profession 1873-1875

·       The Native Returns 1876-1878

·       The Professional Author 1878-1885

·       The State of Marriage Examined 1885-1890

·       Tess 1890-1895

·       Jude 1893-1896

·       Novelist into Poet 1896-1907

·       Widower and Lover 1908-1914

·       The Poet’s Way 1911-1928

·       The Man of Wessex

·       Appendix 1 – Synopses

·       Appendix 2 - Dramatisations

 

The book measures 8.75 inches x 5.75 inches and has 247 pages (including illustrations). 

 

The book is in good, internally clean and neat condition for its age, with minor wear/bumps to the original hardback cover. There are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings in the book. The binding is good with no loose or missing pages.  There is no dust-jacket.

 

A wonderfully illustrated vintage FIRST EDITION.

 

COMBINED POSTAGE - ALL BIDDERS: We offer 20% off the total postage & packing/shipping for additional items after the cost of the heaviest book – please wait for a combined invoice.

 

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Buyer to pay postage & packing

For UK Postage: 2nd Class/Parcels = £3.10;

or 1st Class = £3.90

 

European Union Postage: = 6.95 GB Pounds

 

USA Postage: Air Mail (USA) = 13.45 GB Pounds

 

Rest of the World Postage: Air Mail (Anywhere else in the World) = 10.70 GB Pounds

 

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