WESSEX TALES BY THOMAS HARDY 1952 BAYNTUN RIVIERE BINDING

[HARDY, THOMAS]. Wessex Tales. That is to say: The Three Strangers, A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four, The Melancholy Hussar, The Withered Arm, Fellow-Townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, The Distracted Preacher. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1952.

NEW EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (21.5 x 14 x 3 cm); pp. viii, [2], 287. English text. Beautifully bound by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England, in full calf gilt; all page edges gilt; hand-marbled endpapers; half-title. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. Condition: NEAR FINE. A near immaculate copy, with just a hint of rubbing to the joints, without previous ownership markings. Scarce thus.