Hardback, approx 8 x 5.5 inches. In dark green cloth covers with gilt to spine and decorated gilt TH monogram to front. Top edge gilt. In good condition. Rubbing to cloth; spine faded and nicked at top end. Cloth rubbed around edges, corners bumped with small nick to cloth at top front corner. Cloth rubbed on boards. Some light foxing to endpapers. Some minor darkening to front tissue guard, else inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. 301pp. With b/w frontis etching of Melchester and map of Wessex at back.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Life's Little Ironies. A Set of Tales with Some Colloquial Sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters. With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex. The Wessex Novels Volume XIV.

Publisher

London & New York, Harper & Brothers, 1898

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HARDY, THOMAS

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T.A. PROCTOR T/A THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP,established 1976. Our shop in Puddletown,Dorset has been open since 1978. We are situated in the heart of the "HARDY COUNTRY", just outside Dorchester on the Road to Bournemouth. Our miscellaneous stock is interesting and changes frequently. We also stock some antique maps (mostly of Dorset) and some engravings of mostly local views. Member of ABA and ILAB.

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