tess durbervilles von hardy thomas, Signiert (10 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. [Santa Cruz, California]: Cowell Press, 1982. 42 x 14.5 cm. Single sheet, 3 color print. Number 2 of 10 copies printed, this piece is presumed to be a student project printed at Cowell Press at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Whitney's design is a reimagining of a cover for Hardy's novel, and is signed and numbered in pencil at the bottom of the print. The print has one light band of toning across the bottom of the piece, with three small tack holes at the top from being hung. Shrinkwrapped on archival board. Signed by Artist. Broadside. Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator). 8vo. Illustrated cloth with spine label stamped in gilt, with the original glassine which is yellowed at the spine, edge worn and split in several places along the spine. The book in near fine condition, with the slipcase worn a little around the edges and corners, with one split along the spine corner. With seven double page engravings by Agness Miller Parker which have been reproduced in colour. This is number 401 of 1500 copies signed by Agnes Miller Parker.

Llewellyn Thomas (illustrator). Limited edition of 1500 copies, this being no 1387. Signed on the limitation page by Agnes Miller Parker. Hardback. 8vo. [i - viii], ix - xxv, [xxvi], [1 - 4], 5 - 447, [448 - 449]pp. Publisher's original cloth using Agnes Miller Parker's image for 'Wellbridge Mill'. Leather title label with gilt affixed to spine. All edges speckled. Original slipcase with printed label to long edge. Book in very good condition. Small loss at head of spine. Spine label chipped. Internally clean and bright. Slipcase good - some wear around the edges and to top surface. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. This finely bound book, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, is signed by author Thomas Hardy. It is the first volume in a twenty volume author-approved "Autograph Edition" put out by Harper and Brothers in 1915. The book comes from set number 21 of an edition of 153. Bound in 3/4 blue leather with marbled paper over boards, gilt-stamping along spine, five raised bands, top edge of text block gilded, other edges deckled, marble end papers, 508 pages,  illustrated with four photogravures of English manor houses and a map of the Wessex of the novels and poems. 9 1/2" x 6 5/8". Thomas Hardy is known for writing novels with characters who often struggled with their passions and social circumstances. Some of his best known works include: Far from the Madding Crowd (1886), and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891). Condition: Volume I only. Corners and spine ends worn, light staining to leather, some scratching to gilding on text block. Generally very good condition with a clean interior and a bold signature. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited Edition, one of 325 copies SIGNED by Thomas Hardy, illustrated by Vivien Gribble. A very good copy: Pages uncut except for the preliminary signature with title and limitation page, vellum spine clean and white (often discolored), small crimp at bottom of spine, edges and tips of sensitive paper-covered boards worn through (as usual with this heavy volume), fold-out Wessex map at rear perfect, lacking the rare and fragile dust jacket, but housed in a clear Mylar wrapper and custom slipcase. A magnificent production of one of the towering masterpieces of English literature. Scarce in this lovely condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Vivien Gribble (illustrator). Limited Edition. 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Vivien Gribble (illustrator). 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. Signed by Author(s). Book.

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.

3 volumes. First edition, first issue of Vols. I and III and First edition, second state of Vol. II with the chapter heading "XXXV" correct on page 199. 8vo, publisher's original mustard cloth decorated in gilt on covers after a design by Charles Ricketts, decoratively lettered in gilt on spines. Now housed in a fine custom slipcase with triple-rounded morocco back gilt lettered and with each volume in a custom chemise. 264; 278; 277 pp. A very fine and very attractive set, the cloth clean and fresh with bright gilt, the hinges solid and sturdy, the text very fine as well. FIRST EDITION AND A BEAUTIFUL SET OF ONE OF HARDY'S GREATEST NOVELS, and also one of his last. Publication of the novel created a violent sensation, and the critical reception of TESS, and later JUDE THE OBSCURE, convinced Hardy to give up novels in favor of poetry (which he had always considered superior to fiction). Only 1000 copies were printed, and as was the case with many Victorian novels, copies were snapped up by the lending libraries of the period and were subject to the repeated hard wear of enthralled readers. It is now a very scarce work, and is very difficult to find in the original cloth bindings. Laid into the first volume is a one-page autograph note signed by Hardy.

The Works of Thomas Hardy, signed limited edition. Octavo, thirty-seven volumes, bound in contemporary three quarters dark blue morocco, gilt tooling and titles to the spine. The Mellstock edition, limited to five hundred copies. In near fine condition. A very nice attractively bound set. Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin.