Concerning Jude the obscure, by H. Havelock Ellis

London: The Ulysses bookshop, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Limited Edition, no. 172 of 185 copies signed by the author. Typo in the word 'limited' hand corrected, presumable by the publisher who also hand-numbered the limitation. Quarter black cloth and pink paper-covered boards with black titling on front, soiled along top and bottom edges. Binding is sound. Light, infrequent foxing to fep and page edges. Interior is unmarked. Clean, and thick rough-cut page edges, as of hand-made paper. In original glassine wrapper, which is chipped at extremities and with loss at spine heel. 7.25 x 10.5 ins. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: 'The present essay, printed in the Savoy for October 1896, soon after the publication of Jude the Obscure, has...remained without re-publication.... I have no wish to make any substantial change in it--though the indignation aroused by Jude, which led Hardy to abandon fiction, probably caused me to emphasise my own judgment--but I have never, so far, found any fitting place for the essay in my books. Meanwhile, however, the Savoy has become the exclusive possession of bibliophiles, and I willingly accept the opportunity of re-publication now offered.' (from a prefatory note by the author.) 'If novelists were a little less in the dark about the appearance of their own works what productions they might bring forth, but they are much in the position of the man inside the hobbyhorse at a Christmas masque, and have no consciousness of the absurdity of its trot, at times, in the spectator's eyes.'-Thomas Hardy (-from the prefatory letter by Thomas Hardy to Havelock Ellis) 4 p. l., 37, [1] p. 26 cm.