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Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd
HARDY, THOMAS.
Far from the Madding Crowd.
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company .
Early edition of Thomas Hardy’s fourth published novel. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with gilt titles, frontispiece, with black and white illustrations. In very good condition, signature to the front free endpaper.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 148173
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“I won't be a slave to the past”: the Works of Thomas Hardy
HARDY, THOMAS.
The Works of Thomas Hardy. [Including Far from the Madding Crowd; Desperate Remedies; The Return of the Native.]
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company c. 1900.
The Rand, McNally & Company edition of books by Thomas Hardy. Octavo, five volumes bound in the original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spines and front panels, top edge gilt. In very good to good condition, bookplates to the front pastedowns of ‘Desperate Remedies’ and ‘Mayor of Casterbridge’.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147349
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“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized”: Limited Anniversary Edition of The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse
HARDY, THOMAS.
The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse. [Including Far from the Madding Crowd; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Trumpet-Major; Tess of the D’Urbervilles; A Pair of Blue Eyes; Two on a Tower; The Return of the Native; Desperate Remedies; Wessex Tales.]
London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1920.
The Anniversary edition of Thomas Hardy’s complete works in prose and verse. Octavo, twenty-one volumes bound in the original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spines, author’s initials stamped in blind to the front panels, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, illustrated with tissue-guarded photographs throughout, several pages uncut. One of one thousand two hundred and fifty numbered copies, this is number 108. In near fine condition, ownership signature to the front free endpaper of the first volume.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147341
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“I won't be a slave to the past": the Works of Thomas Hardy
HARDY, THOMAS.
The Works of Thomas Hardy. [Including Far from the Madding Crowd; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Return of the Native; The Hand of Ethelberta.]
New York: Hovendon Company n.d.
The Hovendon Company edition of Thomas Hardy’s works. Duodecimo, four volumes bound in the original publisher’s cloth, top edge gilt, frontispiece to ‘Return of the Native.’ In good condition with some rubbing and bumping to the extremities, bookplates to the front pastedown of ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge,’ slight toning to the margins, ownership stamp to the front free endpaper of ‘Far From the Madding Crowd,’ ownership signature and marginalia in pencil to some volumes.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 147350
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“Weakness is doubly weak by being new”: the Works of Thomas Hardy
HARDY, THOMAS.
The Works of Thomas Hardy. [Including Far from the Madding Crowd; Two on a Tower; The Return of the Native.]
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers [1895].
The Thin Paper Edition of Books by Thomas Hardy. Duodecimo, six volumes bound in the original publisher’s sheepskin with gilt titles and elaborate botanical tooling to the spines, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities, book plate to the front pastedown of ‘Jude the Obscure’, ownership signatures to some volumes. A charming set.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 147346
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“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized”: The Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy
HARDY, THOMAS.
The Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy. [Including Far from the Madding Crowd; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Trumpet-Major; Tess of the D’Urbervilles; A Pair of Blue Eyes; Two on a Tower; The Return of the Native; Desperate Remedies; Wessex Tales.]
London: Harper & Brothers Publishers c. 1896.
The American edition of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Novels. Octavo, seventeen volumes bound in the original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spines, author’s initials stamped in gilt to the front panels, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, author’s signature in facsimile opposite the frontispiece of volume I. In very good condition with some toning to the spines, ownership signature and gift inscription to the front free endpaper of some volumes. The first uniform and collected edition of Hardy’s works in America.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 147342
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“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness": The Works of Thomas Hardy
HARDY, THOMAS.
The Works of Thomas Hardy. [Including Far from the Madding Crowd; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Trumpet-Major; The Hand of Ethelberta; A Pair of Blue Eyes; Two on a Tower; A Laodicean; The Return of the Native; Desperate Remedies; Under the Greenwood Tree; The Woodlanders; Wessex Tales.]
New York: Peter Fenelon Collier c. 1890.
The P.F. Collier edition of Thomas Hardy’s works. Octavo, twelve volumes bound in the original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, all edges speckled blue, tissue guarded frontispiece to each volume, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 147337
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First edition, signed limited issue of Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts
HARDY, THOMAS.
The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon, In Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, and One Hundred and Thirty Scenes, the Time Covered by the Action Being About Ten Years.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1927.
First edition, signed limited issue of Hardy’s epic drama. Quarto, three volumes, original half vellum over decorated paper boards with gilt titles to the spine, etched frontispiece portrait by Francis Dodd. One of five hundred and twenty-five copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Near fine in the rare original dust jackets which are in very good condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 140594
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First Edition of Thomas Hardy's A Group of Noble Dames
HARDY, THOMAS.
A Group of Noble Dames.
New York: Harper and Brothers 1891.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front panel, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 133304
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Signed Limited Edition of Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts
HARDY, THOMAS.
The Dynasts.
London: Macmillan & Co 1927.
Signed limited edition, one of 525 examples. Quarto, bound in half vellum over boards. Signed by Thomas Hardy in volume I. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 133285