Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional Leather Bound Collector’s Edition of Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Easton Press, 2005. Newer printing b
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards with a few rubbed spots, strong gilt accents, clean gilt page blocks, mild spine tilt, strong spine ends, mild shelf wear and strong corners. Silk moire paste downs are clean with no bookplate. Ribbon was moved. Previous owner’s bookplate with name blacked out on front paste down. No marks or inscriptions inside. Pages clean and bright.
No dust jacket, as issued.
Subtitled A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, Thomas Hardy’s sympathetic portrait of a blameless young woman’s destruction first appeared in 1891. Its powerful indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, along with its unconventional focus on the rural lower class and its direct treatment of sexuality and religion, raised a ferocious public outcry. Tess of the D’Ubervilles is Hardy’s penultimate novel; the pressures of critical infamy shortly afterward drove the author to abandon the genre in favor of poetry. Like his fictional heroine, the artist fell victim to a rigidly oppressive moral code.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
