Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional Special Edition of Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting (Read and Reflect with the Classics) by Thomas Hardy and Karen Swallow Prior. First Edition unstated. B and H Publishing, 2022. First Printing with full number line, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine and the front cover design, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly , and bumped/rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the half-title page. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The decorative end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The half-size dust jacket on the rear board is in Near Fine condition with the price on the rear barcode, and mild surface and edge wear.
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.
