Old Mrs Chundle and other Stories, with The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall
HARDY, Thomas
Edited by F. B. Pinion. [The New Wessex Edition. Volume Three.]
NEAR FINE COPY IN THE NEW WESSEX EDITION
Published: Macmillan, [1977]
Stock code: 51905
Price: £30.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 2 full-page illustrations by the author in the text; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked with 'TH' monogram in gilt, gilt back, blue top, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper lightly rubbed at extremities.
This final volume of the New Wessex Edition contains all the stories which, although they have been published in various forms, have never previously been collected together in volume form. It includes Old Mrs Chundle, Destiny and a Blue Cloak, The Doctors Legend, An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress, Outlines for Stories, The Thieves Who Couldnt Help Sneezing, Our Exploits at West Poley and The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall.