TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES. A PURE WOMAN FAITHFULLY PRESENTED by Hardy, Thomas - 2005

A. L. Burt Co, 1921. no additional printings listed . Hardcover. good/no jacket. NOT an ex library book. Book with green cloth binding. Print on spine is dulled but readable. Name on inside front cover. 457 pages plus publisher ad. Four black/white plates.

E-203: Harper & Brothers. Good. 1892. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, 1892. 421 pgs. Frontispiece plus 10 other full-page illustrations. First American edition/First Printing. Publisher's brick red cloth stamped with gilt titles and black shamrock motif. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are chipped and worn to the crown of the spine). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The first edition from January 1892 excluded numerous events "more especially addressed to adult readers," including two significant ones: Tess's "seduction" by her cousin Alec, and the baptism and death of her baby. When peddler John Durbeyfield learns that he may be a descendant of a noble family, he sends his oldest child, Tess, to “claim kin. ” Blindly ushered into harm’s way, the strong-willed yet… Read More