"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
Thomas Hardy | First Editions
1840 - 1928
See below our stock of Thomas Hardy First Editions and fine bindings.
Results 1 - 5 (of 5)
The Trumpet Major, John Loveday, A Soldier in the War with Buonaparte and Robert his Brother, First Mate in the Merchant Service. A Tale.
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, no date [circa 1915]. [Historical Fiction] FINELY BOUND, a later American edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 374 [4]. With a photographic frontispiece. Recently bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, further gilt decoration..... More
Freed From the Fret of Thinking. Poem contained within The Adelphi, vol. 2. no.12., May 1925.
London: British Periodicals Ltd. [1925]. [Poetry] Publisher's yellow paper wraps. Contains a 3-verse poem by Hardy. Previous catalogue description loosely inserted. Darkened to spine, spine nicked at bottom, owner's name on upper, one inked annotation on p.974. Very good. Also includes an article by Aldous Huxley entitled Our Contemporary Hocus-Pocus..... More
A Leader of Fashion. Poem contained within The Adelphi, vol.3. no.6, November 1925.
London: British Periodicals Ltd. [1925]. [Poetry] Publisher's yellow paper wraps. Contains a 7-verse poem by Hardy. Previous catalogue description loosely inserted. Nicked to spine ends, some dustiness, corners folded, small splash mark to the rear cover. Very good. Also includes a war poem by Edmund Blunden. Purdy, p.239... 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
Some Recolledtions by Emma Hardy with Some Relevant Poems by Thomas Hardy.
London: Oxford University Press, 1961. [Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xv; [1]; 91; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 16s to front flap. Photographic frontispiece, with eleven halftone plates. Ex-libris stamp front paste-down, rolling to spine, bumping to edges..... More
Results 1 - 5 (of 5)