Wessex Tales. Strange, Lively and Commonplace
HARDY, Thomas
[Second Edition.]
SECOND EDITION; 1500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: Macmillan, 1889
Stock code: 47337
Price: £90.00
8vo., Second Edition; red pebble-grain cloth, upper board ruled in blind and blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, joints mildly rubbed, backstrip dulled (but all gilt wholly legible), backstrip chafed at head else a good, bright, clean copy.
With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. Collects five of Hardy's finest short stories: An Imaginative Woman, The Three Strangers, The Withered Arm, Fellow-Townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, and The Distracted Preacher. The work was never reprinted in its original two-volume form (1888). Macmillan reissued the collection in one volume in an edition of 1,500 copies in late February 1889. See Purdy, p.60.