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Lot Description

HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). A large group of 84 vintage works by Thomas Hardy, including:

The Return of the Native. London: C. Kegan & Paul Co., 1880. -- Desperate Remedies. London: William Heinemann, 1892. Contemporary half calf. -- Jude the Obscure. London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd., 1896. -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1905. SALESMAN'S DUMMY PROSPECTUS. -- A Pair of Blue Eyes. New York: A.L. Burt & Company, [1906]. -- Under the Greenwood Tree. London: Chatto & Windus, 1913. -- A Pair of Blue Eyes. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1884. 2 volumes. -- The Trumpet Major. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1881. -- Jude the Obscure. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1896. -- A Laodicean. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1882. 2 volumes in one. -- Far From the Madding Crowd. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1878.

And others. Together, 84 works in 84 volumes, all 8vo and 4to, most in original bindings, condition generally very good.

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