First edition of Hardy's final novel

Jude the Obscure.

London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, 1896.

Price: $1,000.00


About the item

Macbeth-Raeburn, H. First edition of Thomas Hardy's final novel, the eighth volume in The Wessex Novels; published for the first time in a book. Illustrated, [viii] 516 pp. 8vo. Bound in forest green half morocco backed marble boards with gilt ruling, gilt titles on five-banded spine, and t.e.g. Marble endpapers with handsome bookplate of heiress Gustavia Senff on upper pastedowns, bump to top edge and front hinge neatly repaired.

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