NMLP P-045145 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

A Pair of Blue Eyes

Thomas Hardy · Tinsley Brothers (London) · 1873

Michael Sadleir ranked it No. I in his 'Comparative Scarcities,' i.e. Hardy's scarcest first edition. No book-club issue is at stake for the 1873 first; watch for later Osgood/McIlvaine and Macmillan Wessex-format reprints, which are 'first thus,' not the true first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-045145 for "A Pair of Blue Eyes" by Thomas Hardy (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045145, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).