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Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895 (though the title page says 1896). It is Hardy’s last completed novel. The protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man; he is a stonemason who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion, morality and marriage.

Below is a recent realized price for a Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure 1895/6 1st edition book dust jacket. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:

Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure 1895/6 1st Edition Book Dust Jacket. Sold for over $10,000.

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Thomas Hardy signed collection of his works, in 37 volumes. Limited Mellstock edition is beautifully signed “Thomas Hardy” in Volume I on the limitation page, one of 500 copies signed by the author. Also with a frontispiece portrait of Hardy in Volume I. London: MacMillan and Co., 1919-1920. Complete set is rare in its original binding, in navy blue cloth boards with monogrammed gilt medallions to front covers, and gilt lettering and scroll work to spine. Novels include “Tess of the D’Ubervilles”, “Far from the Madding Crowd” and “Jude the Obscure” along with Hardy’s poems and other works. Each volume measures 6.25″ x 9.25″. Browning to endpapers, cracked spine to Vol. II, rear joint starting in Vol. IX and front joint slightly starting in Vol. XIV, but overall an unusually handsome set in very good condition with generally tight bindings and clean interiors. Sold for $1,900.

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Very rare ”Gone With the Wind” novel signed by the cast. New York: The MacMillan Co., 1938, later edition. Novel is signed on the front endpapers by the leading cast members: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, Ona Munson, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, Thomas Mitchell, Carroll Nye, Oscar Polk, and unit manager William J. Scully. Underneath their signatures are the names of their ”Gone With the Wind” characters, written in another hand. Housed in a custom leather clamshell box with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, ”Gone With the Wind / Autographed by Twelve Members of Cast”. Book measures 6” x 9”. Toning to signature page, otherwise very good. With PSA/DNA for all actor’s signatures. Sold for $15,000.

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