Vintage Book, Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, Limited Edition, NovelOur Stock # 24278 This is a vintage copy of Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. An English, cloth bound limited edition novel, dating to the early 20th century, published 1926. Often set in the semi fictional region of Wessex, Thomas Hardy (1840 1928) was a novelist and poet. Taking its name from the medieval region of Southern England, Hardy's Wessex as it came to be known, expanded within his literary landscape to cover Devon, Somerset,