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Thomas Hardy | First Editions
1840 - 1928
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Far From the Madding Crowd. The Wessex Novels Volume II.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[4] xii; 476 [2]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to..... More
A Group of Noble Dames. That is to say, The First Countess of Wessex; Barbara of the House of Grebe; The Marchioness of Stonehenge; Lady Mottisfont; The Lady Icenway; Squire Petrick's Lady; Anna, Lady Baxby; The Lady Penelope; The Duchess of Hamptonshire; and The Honourable Laura. The Wessex Novels Volume XV.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 271 [1]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to..... More
Life's Little Ironies: A Set of Tales with some Colloquial Sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters. The Wessex Novels Volume XIV.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 301 [1]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to..... More
A Pair of Blue Eyes. The Wessex Novels Volume IV.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10] 454. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to upper. Top..... More
Two on a Tower. The Wessex Novels Volume V.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[4] vi; 333 [1]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to..... More
The Woodlanders. The Wessex Novels Volume VII.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. [Classic Literature] From the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10] 460 [2]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decorative TH monogram stamped in gilt to upper..... More
Tess of The D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman. Wessex Edition Volume I.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1927. [Classic Literature] VINTAGE COPY, a later printing of the Wessex Edition. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 508 [4]. With a photogravure frontispiece and a double-page map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edge untrimmed. A crisp..... More
The Woodlanders.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. [Classic Literature] FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 352. In a contemporary amateur binding of tan half half with gilt titles to burgundy labels on spine. Grained green cloth over boards. Plain bookplate of Captain Liebert to front pastedown; further black ink ownership..... More
A Changed Man: The Waiting Supper And Other Tales concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid.
MacMillan and Co., Limited, London, 1913. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. With a map of Wessex and a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth, gilt decoration to upper board, top edge gilt. In the original printed dust-jacket. Book is fine, but for some offset browning from flaps, neat ink name hidden beneath. The fragile..... More
The Dynasts. An Epic Drama of the War with Napoleon.
London: Macmillan, 1926. INSCRIBED FROM STEPHEN SPENDER TO E.R. CURTIUS. Reprint edition. Octavo, pp.525; [1], blank; [2], adverts. With a gift note to the flyleaf; For E.R Curtius / With Best Wishes / From Stephen Spender. // Bonn-am-Rhein / December 1930 (underline). Blackwell's ticket to pastedown, some trivial marking to..... More
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