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Thomas Hardy | First Editions
1840 - 1928
See below our stock of Thomas Hardy First Editions and fine bindings.
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Jude The Obscure.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. [Classic Literature] FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2]; viii; 516; [2]. With a frontispiece etching by Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex at rear. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt TH monogram to upper board. Top..... More
Tess of The D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS, volume I of the first collected works edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[4] xiv; 519 [1]. With an etched frontispiece of the author and a facsimile signature reproduced from the 1892 edition, as well as an additional etching of..... 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
The Works of Thomas Hardy. The Wessex Novels.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895-6. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 18 volumes, octavo. With illustrations. Elegantly bound in recent green half morocco with gilt to spines, green cloth boards, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Minor toning; a clean, fine copy inside and out. A handsome set in a robust recent leather..... 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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