Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

Verlag: Published by Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co, London, 1896, 1896

Beschreibung

One of Hardy s greatest novels, here in the hard to find First Edition, First State with all page numbers present on partial blanks in gatherings A - H. Jude the Obscure. By Thomas Hardy. With an Etching by H. Macbeth Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. The letter killeth. All Rights Reserved. The publication history reads: Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co., 45 Albemarle Street, London, 1896. The volume is paginated as follows: viii, 516 p. The volume measures 20.8 x 14.5 x 4 cm. Each leaf measures 200 x 135 mm First Edition, Perfect First State. The page numbering was altered during printing, so that sigs. A-H exist in two distinct states, often found mixed. In the first state page numbers are present on partially blank pages, but this was later altered to omit numbers at the chapter endings. In this copy all page numbers are present in gatherings A H (Pg. 1 128) except for the full blank Pg. 88. All partially blank pages have page numbers making this copy a perfect First State. Original green cloth, titles to spine and roundel to front board gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Endpapers still fresh and not browned with only slight foxing, light markings to the cloth, corners slightly bumped. Etched frontispiece on series-title verso, with original tissue guard (now foxed), map of Wessex at end. Pages clean, bright, not browned, with minimal chips, and fox marks. A very good to near fine copy. Purdy, 86-91. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1615735720081

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Jude the Obscure

Verlag: Published by Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co, London, 1896

Erscheinungsdatum: 1896

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition