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Under the Greenwood Tree Or the Mellstock Quire
by Hardy Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, Ont: The Macmillan Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1944. Hard Cover. Book/binding is red cloth on boards; gilt lettering on spine; publisher ( gilt) colophon on cover; firm, tight and square; very light general soiling on covers; minor wear at edges and corners. Text clean and unmarked on white pages. A frontispiece map of Wessex. "Hardy's delightful pastoral novel--subtitled "A Rural Painting of the Dutch School"--is about the efforts of the members of a choir in a rural church to keep change and modern ways from encroaching on what they hold dear. It is also the story of the romance between Dick Dewy and the schoolteacher Fancy Day. "; St. Martin's Classics; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; 279 pages .
Synopsis
"Under the Greenwood Tree" is a tale of youthful love, community position, and the change from old traditions to new ones. A must have for Thomas Hardy fans. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1021
- Title
- Under the Greenwood Tree Or the Mellstock Quire
- Author
- Hardy Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ont
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Pastoral Fiction.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; England; American Politics; Fiction, Classics;
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About the Seller
Bytown Bookery
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Vars, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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