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Hardy, Thomas.
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description
- A Pair of Blue Eyes. A Novel. Tinsley Brothers, 1873
- paper
8vo, 3 volumes, first edition of the author's third published novel, one of approximately 500 copies, without the catalogue sometimes present at the end of volume 3, original green diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth (primary binding), blocked and lettered in black and gold, upper covers with Oxford frames, preserved in quarter morocco folding boxes, recased with new endpapers, spines very creased and worn with some tears (some repaired), other edges and covers worn, boxes worn
Literature
Purdy pp.8-13; Sadleir 1112
Catalogue Note
First edition of the first Hardy novel to bear his name as the author, and first in Sadleir's list of scarcities.