A changed man, The waiting supper and other tales: Concluding with The romantic adventures of a milkmaid (Macmillans Empire Library) by Hardy, Thomas - 1913

New York & London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1913. Hardcover. Light shelf wear extremities. .

Macmillan, 1927. Hardcover. Good. 1927. Reprinted. 412 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.

Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1920. Hardcover. Good. 1920. Pocket Edition. 412 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Map to rear free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Adamant Media Corporation, 2003-10-20. Paperback. Good.

1913. 1913 Hardy, Thomas A CHANGED MAN, THE WAITING SUPPER AND OTHER TALES NY: Harper & Brothers, 1913 Published October 1913 407pp lower inner edges front and rear covers damp-stained, scratches on rear cover, small closed split on front hinge, a nice copy in spite of the defects.

Macmillan, 1913. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. First edition. Covers worn and spotted. Front hinge cracked. A long Christmas inscription on the front flyleaf.

A CHANGED MAN-THE WAITING SUPPER AND OTHER TALES, Harpers, 1913, first American edition, a near vg copy.

London: Macmillan And Co., 1913. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 6". None. A first edition of Thomas Hardy's collection of short stories, containing a map of Wessex. The first edition of this work from Thomas Hardy, volume XVIII of The Wessex Novels, containing eleven short stories and a novella.With a frontispiece illustration, and double page illustrated map to the rear. Collated, complete.Containing 'A Changed Man', 'A Waiting Supper', 'Alicia's Diary', 'The Grave by the Handpost', 'Enter a Dragoon', 'A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork', 'What the Shepherd Saw', 'A Committee-Man of 'The Terror'', 'Master John Horseleigh, Knight', 'The Duke's Reappearance', 'A Mere Interlude' and 'The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid'.A Victorian realist, Hardy was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. Much of his writing explored this, and was set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. In… Read More

1913. Concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1913). Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First (American) Edition, published simultaneously with the English one. To quote from Hardy's prefatory note, this is a collection of "for what they may be worth, a dozen minor novels" that had previously appeared only in periodicals -- between 1881 and 1900, before Hardy had forsaken fiction for verse. It constitutes Hardy's last major volume of prose. The American edition, which in our experience is scarcer than the English one, has as a frontispiece a Reinhart illustration from "The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid," where the English edition has a photogravure of Maiden Castle. This is a fine, bright copy (very faint discoloration on the rear cover). Purdy pp 156-7.

London:: Macmillan,, 1913.. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Small chip and tear to top of spine; else a bright, fresh copy in a jacket with and ink name to the front flap, chipping to the extremities of the spine (not affecting any lettering), and some general browning and use. The jacket is extremely uncommon.. 8vo,. Wolff 2970.