Shelfmark
Ku.2.01
Author
Title
The life and death of the mayor of Casterbridge : a story of a man of character / by Thomas Hardy ; with a map of Wessex.
Edition
Pocket ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Macmillan and Co., 1925.
Physical description
vii, 405 p. : map ; 17 cm.
Note
Publisher's plum cloth ; gilt lettering and decoration on front board and spine ; with original dust jacket.
Provenance
Louise V. Prussing's copy. Inscribed in ms. by Hardy to Prussing on front endpaper: "Miss Louise Prussing. 'Lucetta' 20 Sept, 1926. Thomas Hardy". Prussing played Lucetta in Ridgeway's production (dramatised by John Drinkwater).
Copy-specific note
Signed in ms. on endpapers by the cast of the dramatisation of the novel in 1926 (dramatised by John Drinkwater). The programme of the play is pasted to a rear endpaper.
Copy-specific note
ALS from Prussing to Mr Holmes, dated 1979, is loosely inserted. Significantly, Prussing recollects the occasion when Hardy came to watch the play. She describes him as "a little brown gnome [...] & a very naughty twinkle in his eye".
Copy-specific note
In red half morocco and cloth slip case.
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Macmillan & Co. publisher.
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England London.
Identifier
B35486