HARDY (THOMAS) A Pair of Blue Eyes. A Novel, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 500 COPIES, Tinsley Brother, 1873HARDY (THOMAS)A Pair of Blue Eyes. A Novel, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, [ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 500 COPIES], half-titles, without the publisher's catalogue (often missing, Purdy suggesting "that the binder's supply was soon exhausted"), occasional single spot or light thumbing marks, publisher's green diagonal fine ribbed cloth, blocked in black with Oxford frame on covers, spines tooled in gilt, re-cased with new endpapers, soiling, spine extremities worn with a a few short tears (some repaired), each in morocco-backed solander box (worn) [Purdy, pp.8-13; Sadleir 1112; Wolff 2986], 8vo, Tinsley Brother, 1873The third of Hardy's novels, but the first to bear his name on the title-page, in the original primary binding of green cloth. Purdy suggests the print run was approximately 500 copies and that "the critical reception was favourable".Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 December 2011, lot 55.