Life's Little Ironies. a Set of Tales with Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters by Hardy, Thomas - 1925

Harper & Brothers, 1894. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1894. No Edition Remarks. 268 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Heavy cracking at the hinges with exposed binding material. Title page and contents page are detached but present. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild ring mark to front board.

MACMILLAN & CO LTD,, 1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. This 1923 edition is in good condition without dust jacket. Rubbing and some sunning to the spine. Internally very good, free from inscriptions, markings or wear to the pages.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1894. Green boards, gold title on spine, gilt title and 6 small faces on front, 268 pages plus page of ads. Boards smudged, rubbed along edges, corners bumped. Cracked at ffep, previous owner's name in ink and erasure mark on ffep. Contents page creased and smudged, occasional light smudging on remaining pages. Overall, good. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No DJ. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: MACMILLAN & CO LTD, 1903 Blue Cloth Boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt blocked device to front panel. 302 pp + Map + 32pp publisher's catalogue. Collection of short stories + observations on some local characters. First published 1894 the copy offered by us is the 1903 New Edition. Good (Book- Shelf rubbing to cloth including nick to head of 5mm approx and associated fraying. No previous owner name, light foxing to end papers. Otherwise clean and binding sound). Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale NB. It is DARKER BLUE Camera flash has lightened the blue cover

Paperback / softback. New.

British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-03-25. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1922 The Book Is Tight And Clean, No Marks Or Inscriptions Dark Green Cloth Covered Boards With Bright Gilt Deco Design On Front And Gilt Title On Spine. Very Little Shelf Wear. Cream Dj With Brown Details Including Small Vignette Of Hardy, Front Has Piece Missing At Top And Minor Chipping To All Free Edges.

Macmillan,, 1922. Sm. 8vo., Pocket Edition, with title in red and black, and full-page map in the text; original series binding of plum cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, back gilt extra, gilt top, a near fine copy. Nice copy of the tooled cloth issue of this most attractive edition.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1894. First American Edition. Hardcover - as published. Decorative green cloth with gilt lettering spine and front board, now in protective acetate, some soiling to rear cover. VG+ Ink name of first owner on ffep.