NMLP P-031161 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy · Smith, Elder & Co. · 1878

The decisive first-issue point is on the Volume I title-page: the closing single quotation mark after 'A Pair of Blue Eyes' (in the list of the author's works) is absent in the first issue

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-031161 for "The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-031161, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).