Hardy, Thomas — The Mayor of Casterbridge

New York, Heritage Press, 1963. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copy of a Heritage Press title, being a First Edition Thus. Clean, bright, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, having been preserved well in a Good condition, paper-covered cardboard slipcase. Decorated cloth over boards, gilt lettering over burgundy label at spine. Light sunning to near pink from salmon-colored paper, still quite fine. From a collection of three dozen Heritage Press titles that belonged to an Eastern Washington professional botanist. Complete with the Sandglass newsletter. The Heritage Press operated from 1937 - 1982 and was created by George Macy, who managed with editors the reprinting of volumes from the Limited Editions Club, thus enabling fine printing exemplars to trickle down to a broader public still thirsty, newly thirsty, for classic nineteenth-century novels and biographies. Thomas Hardy's classic novel, and augmented with the lovely black-and-white woodcut engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. xvi [1], 3-317 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine