Author: HARDY, THOMAS
Title: The Return of the Native (Modern Library #121. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1962]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of the sixth novel by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), entirely set on his imagined Egdon Heath in Southwest England. "The Return of the Native" was first published in 1878. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 408 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962 (no publication date appears in book). ML #121.1. --- With considerable dulling to cover & spine gilding and mild cover corner bumps, else a tightly-bound, sound copy. Fair-only unclipped, brittle dust jacket with several tears and a few chips, general age-toning and dampstains, but mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; ix, (3), 507, (8, ads) pages. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket .

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