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London, Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1929-30. Complete in this Series Nine Volumes. Pocket, 7 x 4.5 inches. Deluxe calf leather binding, “Tan ecosse leather with ornate gilding to front and spines.” Top page edges gilt with brown endpapers. In very good conditions. 3 vols with chips to ends of spines; Greenwood Tree, Madding Crowd & Woodlanders, with rubbing to corners of boards. Some slight darkening to spines, Return of Native & Blue Eyes have slightly darker boards, and are in plain card slipcases (one case has chip to end). Return of Native also has a tiny hole nr bottom end of front hinge. Little Ironies with small bump/chip to bottom edge of front board. Jude the first 4 pages after title page are marked with offsetting from a bookmark. A couple of neat pencil inscriptions to endpapers, only one has penned inscription to endpaper (Greenwood Tree) inscribed “Brinley Lewis.” Inside pages are all very clean, bright and tight in each volume, only Greenwood Tree has a couple of…

The Return of the Native is one of Thomas Hardy's novels of character and environment, first published as a serial in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly installments from January to December 1878. The novel follows the lives of people in the fictional Egdon Heath, a symbol of Hardy's vision of nature and human passions.