One page of a bifolium (watermarked "Papyrus Regia"), dated "18.12.95". The text of this note reads: I can only find the enclosed papers [not present], wh. please return, as they do not belong to me. Some details are incorrect. | Photography of Elliott & Fry, Baker St. | Yours truly |.....
Concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1913). Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First (American) Edition, published simultaneously with the English one. To quote from Hardy's prefatory note, this is a collection of "for what they may be.....
With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. (London:) James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., (1896). Original dark blue-green cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition of Hardy's last great novel, issued as Vol. VIII of "The Wessex Novels." Titled HEARTS INSURGENT at the.....
Love and Peril | To Be, or Not To Be | The Melancholy Hussar. Respectively by The Marquis of Lorne K.G. | Mrs. Alexander | Thomas Hardy. London: Spencer Blackett, 1890. 4 pp undated (Blackett) ads. Original light blue cloth lettered in black. First Edition in book form, first issue.....
(London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902.) Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition of Hardy's second volume of verse, which (like the first, WESSEX POEMS), consisted of only 500 copies. None of Hardy's exceedingly scarce multi-volume novels consisted of fewer copies; for example, FAR.....
(London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902.) Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition of Hardy's second volume of verse, which (like the first, WESSEX POEMS), consisted of only 500 copies. None of Hardy's exceedingly scarce multi-volume novels consisted of fewer copies; for example, FAR.....
[in dust jacket] With Portrait and Title Page Engraved on Wood by William Nicholson. London, Liverpool and Boston: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1921. Original blue-grey paper-covered boards with natural linen spine with cover and spine labels, with dust jacket. Riccardi Press Edition, being copy #663 of.....
Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. 2 pp undated ads. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First American Edition of one of Thomas Hardy's best-known, and most-filmed, novels. This edition (January 1892, 421 pages) excluded many events "more especially addressed to adult readers," including two pivotal ones: Tess's seduction/rape.....
Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. (421 pages of text). PLUS: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. New and Revised Edition. (455 pages of text). PLUS: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. New and Completely Revised Edition. (457 pages of text). Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First American.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1880. Undated endpaper ads. Original mustard yellow cloth decorated in black. First American Edition (it is uncertain whether this or Munro's "Seaside Library" edition preceded; Holt's was, however, the authorized one, and also it was listed in Publishers' Weekly a week earlier). This was.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1880. Undated endpaper ads. Original mustard yellow cloth decorated in black. First American Edition (it is uncertain whether this or Munro's "Seaside Library" edition preceded; Holt's was, however, the authorized one, and also it was listed in Publishers' Weekly a week earlier). This was.....
[a dazzling set] London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1880. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of one of Hardy's least-known novels. Written during the year 1879 and serialized in the magazine Good Words (where it was bowdlerized by its Scottish clergyman editor), it is a tale in.....
New York: Holt & Williams, 1873. Endpaper ads dated May 10, 1873. Original cream cloth decorated in black. First American Edition, first issue, of Thomas Hardy's first book appearance in North America. This was his second novel, initially published in two volumes in London in June 1872; however, Hardy's first.....
[illustrated by himself] With 30 Illustrations by the Author. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Original light green cloth pictorially decorated in orange, yellow-green, light blue and white. First American Edition of Hardy's first volume of verse, published about six weeks after the London one (which was dated.....
[illustrated by himself] With 30 Illustrations by the Author. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Original light green cloth pictorially decorated in orange, yellow-green, light blue and white. First American Edition of Hardy's first volume of verse, published about six weeks after the London one (which was dated.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. Original olive green cloth with monogram device in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition, which consisted of 5000 copies, of Hardy's last book -- a collection of 105 poems. From his "Introductory Note" it appears that Hardy intended to have this published on his birthday.....
