Far Madding Crowd Woodlanders Two by Hardy Thomas (10 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Black and White maps. Lovely burgundy cloth binding with gilt decoration. Very Good to Very Good- (V9 has pink stain on bottom edge; book plate on front paste-down of Tess; minor pencil notes on front or rear blanks), without dust jacket. Oversize; Postage & Packing may cost extra.…

Mixed reprint Eds. 18 vols., complete set. Many ills. E.p. maps, good in gilt lettered cloth of varying colours with corn dolly device to upper boards, together in 11 slipcases as issued, some very minor rubbing. Additional postage may be necessary US$371.

Finely bound editions of Hardy's classic novels filled with themes of love and social constraints. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with gilt titles, top edges gilt. In very good condition. Ownership signature to the front pastedown. Thomas Hardyâs Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Woodlanders (1887), and Two on a Tower (1882) each reflect his deep engagement with the themes of love, fate, and social constraints within the rural settings of his fictional Wessex. In Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy examines the complexities of romantic relationships through the character of Bathsheba Everdene, whose independence and choices lead to both personal triumphs and tragic mistakes, while also critiquing the rigid societal expectations of women. The Woodlanders shifts focus to the intersection of class and desire, exploring the struggles of characters torn between their personal aspirations and societal pressures in a small rural community. Meanwhile, Two on a Tower delves into themes of intellectual and emotional isolation, as the love affair between Lady Constantine and the astronomer Swithin St. Cleeve is constrained by class differences and the intellectual pursuits that separate them. Together, these novels showcase Hardyâs distinctive narrative style, blending psychological complexity with a critique of Victorian social norms, and reinforcing his portrayal of rural life as both a site of beauty and a force that shapes human destiny.…

The P.F. Collier edition of Thomas Hardy's works. Octavo, twelve volumes bound in the original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, all edges speckled blue, tissue guarded frontispiece to each volume, illustrated. In very good condition. Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin. For the Wessex Edition "Hardy revised his novels throughout for the last time. In a 'General Preface to the Novels and Poems', dated October 1911 and printed in Vol. I, he explained his classification of his novels here adopted for the first time and offered a brief apologia for his work. This is an essay of primary importance. The Wessex Edition is in every sense the definitive edition of Hardy's work and the last authority in questions of text" (Purdy).…

Twenty three volumes. Contemporary half blue calf by Riviere and Son. 8vo (19 x 13cm). Five raised bands decorated in gilt and titles in gilt to the spines. Top edge gilt. Wessex Poems with 30 illustrations by the author. Fold out map of Wessex to the rear of several volumes. A handsome collection of early editions of the works of Thomas Hardy, the final volume 'Late Lyrics' is a 1922 first edition. The bindings square and firm with a little rubbing to the extremities. The spines uniformly faded. The contents, with just the occasional spot of foxing or toning to the paper are otherwise clean throughout. 'Poems of the Past and Present' has the title and contents pages misbound at the rear (the final pages of text inserted in their place at the prelims). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hardback, Size approx 7.5 x 4 inches. In dark blue full leather binding with elaborate gilt decor on spine. Top edge gilt. In good condition. Spines a little dulled, with some spines a little rubbed at ends. 3 volume Tess, Greenwood Tree, Dynasts Volume 2 have a few minor marks to covers. No inscriptions. A couple of volumes have slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight set. 25 volumes. Collection of Hardy?s works in 25 pocket edition volumes. Not including Winter Words, Human Shows that were published later.…

Hardback, Size approx 7.5 x 4 inches. In maroon full leather binding with elaborate gilt decor on spine. Top edge gilt. In generally good condition. Spines a little dulled, a few faint scuffs to covers, corners a little bumped. Return of the Native has two small white marks on spine. No inscriptions. Tess has Newspaper photo of Hardy Cottage tipped into front endpaper. A couple of volumes have slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight set. 26 volumes. Collection of Hardy?s works in 26 pocket edition volumes. Not including Winter Words.…

Leather pocket editions. Size 7 x 4.25 inches. In dark maroon full calf leather bindings with elaborate gilt decorations on spines and fronts. Top page edges gilt. In dustwrappers with matching designs. In very good condition. With good dustwrappers. (DW?s some darkening to spines and edges, chips to ends ofs pines and corners, some rubbing and small chips to edges, a couple of small holes to spines, some loss to spine on ?Two On A Tower.? ?Under The Greenwood Tree? has slightly different DW in blue print not maroon - this vol. also has a small clipped portrait of Hardy pasted to front endpaper.) Leather with some rubbing and nicks to spine ends. Else clean and smart. Some partial tanning to endpapers. No inscriptions. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. A very good clean and tight set. Nice bright set. Complete in 27 volumes. Each with a map of Wessex at rear. Complete set of Hardy?s works in 27 pocket edition volumes: Under the Greenwood Tree, 1925 / The Trumpet Major, 1928 / The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1926 / The Hand of Ethelberta, 1928 / A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1926 / Far from the Madding Crowd, 1927 / Life's Little Ironies, 1929 / Two on a Tower, 1929 / Jude the Obscure, 1926 / Desperate Remedies, 1926 / Wessex Tales, 1926 / Tess, 1928 / Group of Noble Dames, 1929 / A Laodicean, 1926 / Well-Beloved, 1927 / A Changed Man, 1927 / The Woodlanders, 1929 / The Return of the Native, 1926 / The Dynasts and The Queen of Cornwall (2 vols) 1927 / Time?s Laughing Stocks, 1924 / Wessex poems and Past & Present, 1924 / Satires of Circumstance, 1928 / Moments of Vision, 1925 / Late Lyrics and Earlier, 1924 / Human Shows and Far Fantasies, 1927 / Winter Words (1930 1st pocked ed.).…

Size 4.25 x 7.0 inches. In dark blue full leather binding with elaborate gilt decor on spine. Top edge gilt. In very good condition. Nice bright set. Far from the Madding Crowd and Winter Words slightly rubbed head of spine. No inscription. Inside a clean and tight set. 27 volumes. Complete set of Hardy?s works in 27 pocket edition volumes. A bright set.…

"Wessex Edition". Twenty volumes. 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt spines, early ticket of a Liverpool bookseller (Martin A. McGoff) to the front pastedowns along with a bookplate of a Godfrey W. Mathews, Thomas Hardy's original handwritten signature on a slip of paper taped to the front free endpaper of volume I. 20 photogravure frontispieces plus a double page map of Wessex repeated to the rear of each volume. Sunning to the spines, occasional marking to the cloth, some foxing at intervals. Purdy, pp. 282-86: "The Wessex Edition is in every sense the definitive edition of Hardy's work and the last authority in questions of text". Hardy himself corrected, edited and revised the texts throughout, the final time he did so. A further four volumes of verse were published irregularly between 1919 and 1931, the final one posthumously.…