The Return of the Native Hardback - 1971

HARDBACK "FOLIO EDITION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1971 (1878)* Publisher: The Folio Society.* Binding and cover condition: Olive green cloth, gilt title to slightly tatty applied maroon leather spine label and pale green design of a corn dolly to face. No bumps or rubs, spine faded. VG.* Jacket condition: Publisher?s slipcase, light brown with some marks and light rubbing but complete and firm. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers showing map of Wessex. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 413 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: This Folio Society edition is part of a series of classics by Thomas Hardy in the same presentation with a decorative front board, an applied leather spine label and in a hard slip case. The sixth, and one of Hardy?s most successful novels. It was a tale which excited the Victorian sense of affront at illicit sexual relationships. There are references to superstition, magic & witchcraft all of which added to the public excitement and as the novel was published in twelve monthly instalments, Hardy was able to generate extra suspense with ?cliff-hangers? at end of each instalment.* A VG copy of the 1st. thus with some age. No dust jacket but solid slip case.*