The Trumpet Major.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1880.

Price: $3,000.00


About the item

First edition. vi, 295; vi, 276; vi, 259 pp. Half-titles. 3 vols. 8vo. Half-calf and marbled boards, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt in compartments, red and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Some light rubbing and wear to boards, but a nice copy in an attractive binding. Purdy, pp. 31-35.

Item #312337

First edition of Hardy's "primarily comic but sometimes poignant Wessex story of sexual rivalry and fraternal loyalty during the period of the Napoleonic wars" (ODNB), an effort lighter in tone than his previous novel, The Return of the Native, which was not well received.