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Hardy, Thomas.
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Description
- Three copies of A Changed Man
A Changed Man, the Waiting Supper and Other Tales, concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. Macmillan and Co., 1913, 8vo, first edition, with rare original dust-jacket, some browning and staining, dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some minor loss; another copy (without dustwrapper), some off-setting to sig. A2v; A Changed Man, Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1913, first american edition, upper hinge split, minor staining; all in dark green cloth with ornamented TH monogram blocked in gold
Literature
Purdy, pp.151-7; Sadleir 1104
Catalogue Note
The American edition was simultaneous with the British edition. The Macmillan edition has a photogravure entitled "The Castle of Mai-Dun" as its frontispiece; the Harper edition has a lithograph illustration by C.S. Reinhart. The Harper edition also replaces the two page tipped-in map with a single page map of Wessex.