![Autograph Letter Signed [to novelist George Manville Fenn]. Thomas Hardy.](/pictures/thumb/13000.jpg?v=1507051285)
[an early literary letter] One leaf folded, with Hardy's own address in his hand "Trinity Road, Upper Tooting S.W." Two pages of text, addressed to "My dear Sir," signed "Yours very truly Thomas Hardy," and dated "Sept. 2" [no year but 1880]. The purpose of this early Hardy letter is... More
![Autograph Letter Signed [to novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward]. Thomas Hardy.](/pictures/thumb/13001.jpg?v=1507051285)
[a lengthy literary letter] One leaf folded, on mourning stationery headed "Max Gate, Dorchester." Four pages of text, addressed to "My Dear Mrs Ward," signed "Yours sincerely, Thomas Hardy," and dated 24 March 1905. This long letter is Hardy's response to his receipt, from Mrs. Humphry Ward, of a copy... More
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... More
Concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. 2 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition of this collection of (to quote Hardy's prefatory note) "for what they may be worth, a dozen minor novels" that had previously... More
A Novel. With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. (London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898.) Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. "Wessex Novels" edition, American issue. DESPERATE REMEDIES was Hardy's first novel, first published in 1871 in three volumes; here it... More
A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, & One Hundred and Thirty Scenes. [In Three Volumes.] London: Macmillan and Co., 1903/1906/1908. Original green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Editions. During the 1890s Hardy had turned away from fiction, never to return (reeling from the... More
(London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co., 1891.) Original light brown cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this loosely-connected collection of ten stories of "dames," published just before TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES. One of them, "Barbara of the House of Grebe," is considered to represent Hardy at his most... More
A Comedy in Chapters. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1876. Endpaper ads dated May 9, 1876. Original cream cloth decorated in black. First American Edition, issued as a volume in Henry Holt's "Leisure Hour Series." This was Hardy's fifth novel -- following FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD and preceding... More
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 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 time of... More
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... More
A Set of Tales. With Some Colloquial Sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters. (London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1894.) Original olive green cloth decorated in brown. First Edition. This collection (eight tales plus nine "crusted characters," most of which were written in 1890-1891) was published a few years after TESS... More
New York: Norman L. Munro, n.d. [July 16, 1883]. Original printed terra-cotta wrappers. A very early, but not quite first, edition of this "short hastily written novel" [Hardy himself]. It constituted his first contribution to the Graphic in England -- as the Summer Number for 1883; it was also arranged... More
A Novel. 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)... More
New York: John W. Lovell Company, n.d. [1882]. Original brown cloth decorated in black. Early (first?) American edition. This Hardy novel first appeared serially in Atlantic Monthly, where it ran from May through December 1882, paving the way for it to be pirated once complete. The three-volume English edition came... More
[original cloth, near-fine] A Romance. In Three Volumes. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition, which consisted of only 1000 copies -- most of which were bought up (at half-price) by the lending libraries. This is Hardy's tale about a young... More
A Sketch of a Temperament. With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. (London:) James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., (1897). Original dark blue-green cloth with monogram in gilt. First Edition, issued as Vol XVII in Hardy's "The Wessex Novels." Although this was Hardy's last novel to... More
London: (first 17 volumes) Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.; (18th volume) Macmillan and Co., 1895-1913. Plus: WESSEX POEMS and Other Verses. With Thirty Illustrations by the Author. London: Harper & Brothers, 1898. [Together, 19 volumes.] Original dark blue-green cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Uniform and Complete Edition... More
[in the FIRST binding state] In Three Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. 1 page Vol I ads. Original dark green cloth. First Edition of this novel involving a faithful suitor, a flashy rival, and a heroine who makes a fatal choice -- reminiscent of FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD... More
In Three Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. Original dark green cloth. First Edition of this novel involving a faithful suitor, a flashy rival, and a heroine who makes a fatal choice -- reminiscent of FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD a decade earlier, which in fact was when Hardy first... More
In Three Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. 2 pp undated Vol I ads. Original dark green cloth. First Edition, first binding state, of this novel involving a faithful suitor, a flashy rival, and a heroine who makes a fatal choice -- reminiscent of FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD a.... More
of Popular Literature, Science, and Art. Fourth Series | No. 64. [London & Edinburgh:] William and Robert Chambers, March 18, 1865. Original self-wrappers, lightly bound into a later medium-brown printed folder. First Appearance of Thomas Hardy's first published piece of work, appearing anonymously. The three-page sketch is a rather amusing... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Original light grey-green cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Harris's third book, preceded only by UNCLE REMUS and NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS. This volume consists of four tales, of which "Mingo" actually is the shortest; the longest is "At Teague Poteet's." Though... More
Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1899. Original olive green cloth pictorially decorated in black and red. First Edition, English issue, of this collection of fourteen tales -- including a few about Brer Rabbit and friends. This is a children's story book in the same general... More
With Illustrations in Color by A B. Frost and E.W. Kemble. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. Original light orange-brown cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of Harris's fourth Uncle Remus title -- this one a profusely-illustrated volume of verse. In addition to the title poem, the 26 verses... More
Or, The Adventures of a Young Gentleman in Search of a Religion. By Mr. Benjamins (Bret Harte...). London: John Camden Hotten, n.d. [1871]. 2 pp preliminary ads plus 8 pp terminal ads dated "for 1872." Original glazed printed wrappers. First Separate Edition of this parody of Benjamin Disraeli's 1870 novel... More
