FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
The Mayor of Casterbridge: the Life and Death of a Man of Character.
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1886.
Price: $11,000.00
About the item
First edition. [iv], 313, [1], [2, ads]; [iv], 312, [4, ads] pp. 2 vols. 8vo. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. Publisher's smooth blue cloth, blocked in black on covers and titled in gilt on the spine, gray floral endpapers. A very good copy, with light edgewear and scuffing to covers, bubbling to cloth on vol. I front cover. Bookplate of Roger H. West and his signature to half-titles. In custom blue cloth slipcase. Purdy, pp. 50-54; Sadleir 1111.
Item #300887
The first edition in publisher's cloth of perhaps Hardy's greatest novel — one of only 758 copies printed, of which just 600 were bound. In uncommonly fresh condition.
