Desperate Remedies. A Novel. by HARDY, Thomas - 1871

Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. Hardcover. Good. 1912. Reprint. 473 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rebound. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Minor scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Dewy code to spine.

Macmillan & Co. 1929. 4.0 x 7.0 inches. Soft full blue calf with elaborate gold decor on spine. Blind stamped initials “TH” on front cover. Top edge gilt. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped. A few faint scuffs on boards. A clean and tight copy. 474 pp. With map of Wessex.

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1871. First Edition of author's first book, one of 500 copies, with all half-titles. vi, 304; [vi], 291; vi, 274 pp. 3 vols. 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. Light bumping on bottom corner and foot of spine on volume one, and to rear bottom edge of volume three, otherwise a near fine attractively bound set of Hardy's scarce first novel. First Edition of author's first book, one of 500 copies, with all half-titles. vi, 304; [vi], 291; vi, 274 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Hardy's Rare First Book. Hardy's first novel manuscript was turned down by George Meredith, reading for Chapman & Hall, who advised him to write something with a more "complicated" plot, than the first novel, which he'd entitled The Poor Man and the Lady. He decided to write a a mystery novel with tinges of the Gothic romance, but also heavy… Read More