Under the Greenwood Tree; or, The Mellstock Quire: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1935. Reprint. Hardcover. [modest shelfwear to book, a little dust-soiling and age-toning to the edges of the text block, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is edgeworn, with slight paper losses at several corners and a small array of scrape marks on the spine]. (Macmillan's Cottage Library) Series Hardy's second published novel, and the first of his Wessex novels; originally published anonymously in 1872. Small-format hardcover (about the size of a Modern Library book), in the publisher's "Cottage Library" series; uncommon in the Bip Pares dustjacket. .