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réf. 66251st Edition Osgood McIlvaine London 1894 Sadleir 1110; Hardback: green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in brown - a Charles Ricketts design; Some light cover wear vg. 1st Edition, Osgood McIlvaine, London, 1894 hardcover
réf. 20112233Macmillan & Co London 1896 first edition . 19.0 x 12.0cms 516pp b/w map very good - hardcover with scruffy boards This edition was sold in India & the British colonies. Scarce edition Macmillan & Co London 1896 (first edition) hardcover
1906réf. 51745Macmillan 1906-1928. 20 vols. 8vo. each volume with title in red and black and full-page map at end; plum cloth upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt and tooled in blind gilt backs gilt tops a few volumes lightly rubbed else a very good bright clean set of this most attractive edition. The works comprise: NOVELS: Desperate Remedies; Under the Greenwood Tree; A Pair of Blue Eyes; Far From the Madding Crowd; The Hand of Ethelberta; The Return of the Native; The Trumpet-Major; A Laodicean; Two on a Tower; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Woodlanders; Tess of the d'Urbervilles; Jude the Obscure; The Well-Beloved. SHORT STORIES: Wessex Tales; A Group of Noble Dames; Life's Litle Ironies; A Changed Man. DRAMAS: The Dynasts; The Queen of Cornwall. Macmillan, hardcover
1906réf. 51748Macmillan 1906-1928. 18 vols. 8vo. each volume with title in red and black and full-page map at end; plum cloth upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt and tooled in blind gilt backs gilt tops one ot two backstrips a little dulled else a very good bright clean set of this most attractive edition. The works comprise: NOVELS: Desperate Remedies; Under the Greenwood Tree; A Pair of Blue Eyes; Far From the Madding Crowd; The Hand of Ethelberta; The Return of the Native; The Trumpet-Major; A Laodicean; Two on a Tower; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Woodlanders; Tess of the d'Urbervilles; Jude the Obscure; The Well-Beloved. SHORT STORIES: Wessex Tales; A Group of Noble Dames; Life's Litle Ironies; A Changed Man. Macmillan, hardcover
1907réf. 51770Macmillan 1907-1927. 26 of 27 vols. sm. 8vo. each volume with title in red and black and full-page map at end a few volumes with neat contemporary signatures on front free endpapers; plum cloth upper boards blocked in gilt and tooled in blind gilt backs gilt tops a few backstrips dulled else all very good bright clean copies. THE POCKET EDITION WANTING ONLY THE FINAL VOLUME 'WINTER WORDS'. The works comprise: NOVELS: Desperate Remedies; Under the Greenwood Tree; A Pair of Blue Eyes; Far From the Madding Crowd; The Hand of Ethelberta; The Return of the Native; The Trumpet-Major; A Laodicean; Two on a Tower; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Woodlanders; Tess of the d'Urbervilles; Jude the Obscure; The Well-Beloved. SHORT STORIES: Wessex Tales; A Group of Noble Dames; Life's Litle Ironies; A Changed Man. DRAMA: The Dynasts; The Queen of Cornwall. VERSE: Wessex Poems & Poems of the Past and Present; Time's Laughingstocks; Satires of Circumstance; Moments of Vision; Humas Shows Far Phantasies. Macmillan, hardcover
2000réf. 51970Words Press Dorchester 2000. 8vo. First Edition thus with portrait frontispiece; original wrappers upper cover with printed paper label a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 125 NUMBERED COPIES THIS COPY NO. 104. The frontispiece reproduces Strang's well-known portrait of the author. Hardy's tale was first published in bowdlerised form in The English Illustrated Magazine 1891; the revised text was collected in 'Life's Little Ironies' 1894. See Purdy pp.81-2. Words Press, Dorchester, unknown
1932réf. 113732Blanchetière 1932. plats un peu salis. intérieur frais sans rousseur. numéroté 140. in4. 1932. Broché. 137 pages. Blanchetière unknown
1990réf. 18250Clarendon Press Oxford 1990. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece neat inscription on front free endpaper; navy blue cloth gilt back blue endpapers a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. This selection of letters is distilled by Millgate from his masterly seven-volume collected edition. ALREADY SCARCE. Clarendon Press, Oxford, hardcover
2021réf. 44846Folio Society 2021. 8vo. First Edition thus with coloured frontispiece 16 coloured plates and vignettes in the text; pictorial grey boards blocked in green red morocco back lettered in white green laid endpapers green ribbon marker a fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY MACFARLANE AND DONWOOD THIS COPY NO. 91. Folio Society, hardcover
1915réf. 51780E. Williams Hove 1915. 8pp. 8vo. 1915 Issue text mildly browned as usual; original printed wrappers sewed as issueda very good bright crisp copy. Hardy's well-known if sombre poem was first published in 'The Times' on 9 September 1914. Purdy states that Mrs. Hardy wrote to Williams an antiquarian bookseller confirming that Hardy had no objection to the piece being reprinted and it was accordingly first reissued as a 4pp leaflet on 16th September 1914. The venture was evidently successful for in 1915 Williams reissued the present reset version as an 8pp pamphlet sewn in brown card wrappers. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Purdy pp.157-8. [E. Williams], Hove, unknown
1980réf. 50640Clarendon Press Oxford 1980. 8vo. First Edition; navy cloth upper board blocked with 'TH' monogram in blind gilt back blue endpapers a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE. Clarendon Press, Oxford, hardcover
1976réf. 46922Macmillan 1976. 8vo. Second Impression thus with frontispiece 2 full-page illustrations and full-page map in the text; red cloth upper board with Hardy medallion blocked in gilt gilt back red top red endpapers a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the same year as the first edition. Macmillan's New Wessex Edition 19 vols. is effectively a successor to the same publisher's definitive Wessex Edition published in 24 volumes 1912-1931. Issued in 19 volumes the NWE includes the novels short stories poetry and drama. First issued in hardback from 1975 and several times reprinted each volume is a tall handsome octavo in distinctive green and gilt dustwrapper with introduction and notes by recognised authorities and the map of Wessex first drawn by Hardy hinself. INDIVIDUAL VOLUMES ARE NOW INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO FIND IN THIS CONDITION. Macmillan, hardcover
réf. 25865PRIVATELY PRINTED 1928. LIMITED TO 89 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 39. STIFF CREAM COVERS 15 PAGES SOME UNCUT PAGES EVIDENCE OF SOME DAMAGE TO THE SPINE OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. PRIVATELY PRINTED, 1928 unknown
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1920réf. 48030Macmillan 1920. 2 vols. 8vo. on laid paper with frontispieces in photogravure toned in sepia original tissue guards present half-titles and titles in red and black and double-page maps in the text endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of plum cloth backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED a near fine copy. With series advertisement leaf at end of each volume. The set comprises: Vol. I: The Dynasts Parts First and Second; Vol. II: The Dynasts Part Third; Time's Laughingstocks and other Verses. Macmillan's 'Wessex Edition' the name was suggested by Frederick Macmillan himself was intended as the definitive issue of Hardy's works incorporating all the author's final amendments. Published in 24 volumes between 1912 and 1931 it is beautifully printed on laid paper and elegantly bound. Each volume contains a fine frontispiece in sepia photogravure depcting a 'real-life' scene from the text here they are 'The English Channel from Ridgeway Hill' and 'Wynyard's Gap in A Trampwoman's Tragedy and a double-page 'Map of the Wessex of the Novels and Poems' made from Hardy's own drawing now in the Dorset County Museum. 'The Wessex Edition is in every sense the definitive edition of Hardy's work and the last authority in questions of text' Purdy. Individual volumes are now increasingly hard to find. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Purdy pp.282-6. Macmillan, hardcover
1931réf. 45718Macmillan 1931. 8vo. First Edition thus with portrait frontispiece in photogravure original tissue guard present small signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth gilt back gilt top an unusually bright clean crisp copy. The first edition to combine 'The Dynasts' and 'The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall' in a single volume. Issued as Volume II of 'The Poetical Works' it is nevertheless complete in itself Volume I collects the author's several volumes of poetry. 'The Dynasts' was originally published in three parts 1903 1906 1908 and first collected in a single complete volume in 1910. 'The Queen of Cornwall' 1923 was re-issued in a second and considerably revised edition in the following year. See Purdy pp. 134 and 230. Macmillan, hardcover
1962réf. 34965Macmillan 1962-63. 2 vols. sm. 8vo. Pocket Edition; original series binding of plum cloth upper boards blocked in blind with 'TH' monogram backs gilt extra red tops a near fine set. The set comprises: Vol. I The Dynasts Parts I and II; Vol. II: The Dynasts Part II. The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall. An elegant set of the monogram issue in Macmillan's attractive Pocket edition. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Macmillan, hardcover
1930réf. 25030Macmillan 1930. 8vo. First Edition thus endpapers very lightly browned; blue cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter lightly browned at extremities and with minor loss not affecting lettering at head and tail of backstrip. The first Thin Paper edition combining 'The Dynasts' and 'The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall' in a single volume. Issued as Volume II of 'The Poetical Works' it is nevertheless complete in itself 'Volume I' collects the author's several volumes of poetry. 'The Dynasts' was originally published in three parts 1903 1906 1908 and first collected in a single 'Complete' volume in 1910. 'Queen of Cornwall' 1923 was re-issued in a second and considerably revised edition in the following year. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. See Purdy pp.134 and 230. Macmillan, hardcover
1923réf. 47329Macmillan 1923. 4to. First Edition on laid paper with frontispiece original tissue guard present and a plate by the author a little light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; pictorial green cloth gilt gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped very lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Hardy's great Arthurian verse drama is unusual among his works in that the two illustrations - 'Tintagel Castle' as frontispiece repeated in gilt on front board and the castle's 'Great Hall' - are the work of the author himself. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Purdy pp.227-231. Macmillan, hardcover
1923réf. 6307Macmillan 1923. 4to. First Edition on laid paper with frontispiece original tissue guard present and a plate by the author free endpapers moderately browned; pictorial cloth gilt gilt back a very good bright copy. Hardy's great Arthurian verse drama is unusual among his works in that the two illustrations - 'Tintagel Castle' as frontispiece repeated in gilt on front board and the castle's 'Great Hall' - are the work of the author himself. Purdy pp.227-231. Macmillan, hardcover
1875réf. 34279London: The Cornhill Magazine Smith Elder and Co. 1875-1876. 11 volumes. First Edition of the original issue presented in original format in the eleven volumes issued over the course of months from July 1875 through May 1876. With eleven attractive wood-engraved plates after George Du Maurier. Tall octavo in the publisher's original wrappers all decorated on the front and rear covers with a great profusion of ads throughout. Now housed in two fine morocco backed foldover cases the spine panels with raised bands ruled in blind the compartments lettered in gilt or decorated with central gilt tooled designs. The 11 original parts bound in the original orange wrappers each part containing 4 chapters plus other short stories poems articles etc. An uncommonly handsome set of one of Hardy's rarest works all the more so in original format in the first issue example of the work and in collector's condition. The volumes are each still quite fresh with no significant wear and just a bit of expected mellowing and rubbing at the tips or extremities the text brighter and cleaner then is typically seen especially well preserved. A VERY ATTRACTIVE SET IN ORIGINAL FORMAT RARE IN THE PARTS AND ONE OF HARDY'S SCARCEST WORKS LISTED AS NUMBER FOUR IN COMPARATIVE SCARCITY IN BOOK FORM BY SADLEIR. It is even more rare in the original wraps and in this state of condition most copies being either rebound or separated for binding presentation. The events of the story concern Ethelberta's career as a famous poet and storyteller as she struggles to support her family and conceal her secret—that her father is a butler. Beautiful clever and rational she easily attracts four very persistent suitors Mr. Julian Mr. Neigh Mr. Ladywell and Lord Mountclere but is reluctant to give her much-coveted hand. The Cornhill Magazine, Smith, Elder and Co. paperback
1893réf. 47776Sampson Low Marston 1893. 8vo. free endpapers mildly browned; plum diced cloth upper board blocked in blind gilt back a remarkably bright clean copy. Bright copy of an early reissue. The novel was never reprinted in its original two-volume form. The first single-volume edition appeared in 1877 with six of the original illustrations but much of the edition was remaindered to Sampson Low in 1882. This is apparently the first single-volume without illustrations. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Purdy p.23. Sampson Low Marston, hardcover
1876réf. 29015London: Smith Elder & Co. 1876. 2 volumes. First edition. With eleven attractive wood-engraved plates after George Du Maurier. Tall 8vos in the publisher's original and primary binding of brick-red cloth the upper covers with lettering blocked in gilt within elaborate black Victorian borders the spines decorated and lettered similarly in black and gilt cafe-au-lait endpapers. Now housed in a fine cloth-covered clamshell box with attractive printed label. vi 1 322 2 ad; vi 1 318 2 ad pp. An uncommonly handsome set of one of Hardy's rarest works all the more so in original cloth and desirable condition. The cloth is still quite fresh with no fading and bright gilt just a bit of expected mellowing and rubbing at the tips or extremities the text brighter and cleaner then is typically seen any foxing being only occasional and quite light the plates especially clean. A VERY ATTRACTIVE SET OF ONE OF HARDY'S RAREST WORKS LISTED AS NUMBER FOUR IN COMPARATIVE SCARCITY BY SADLEIR. It is even more rare in the original cloth and in this state of condition most copies being either overly repaired or overtly shabby. The events of the story concern Ethelberta's career as a famous poet and storyteller as she struggles to support her family and conceal her secret—that her father is a butler. Beautiful clever and rational she easily attracts four very persistent suitors Mr. Julian Mr. Neigh Mr. Ladywell and Lord Mountclere but is reluctant to give her much-coveted hand. Smith, Elder, & Co. hardcover
1968réf. 51693Folio Society 1968-1994. 18 volumes 8vo. First Edition thus with frontispieces wood-engravings in the text and endpaper maps; cloth upper boards blocked with corn-dolly device gilt back coloured endpapers coloured tops a near fine set in publisher's slip-cases blocked in gilt. The set comprises: The Mayor of Casterbridge 1968; The Return of the Native 1971; Far From the Madding Crowd 1985; Wessex Tales 1987; Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1988; Under the Greenwood Tree 1989; The Trumpet Major 1990; The Woodlanders 1991; Jude the Obscure 1992; A Pair of Blue Eyes/The Well-Beloved/Two on a Tower 1992; boxed set as 'Romances and Fantasies'; Desperate Remedies/The Hand of Ethelberta/A Laodicean 1993; boxed set as 'Novels of Ingenuity'; A Changed Man/Life's Little Ironies/A Group of Noble Dames; boxed set as 'Short Stories'. Folio 60: 248 294 545 583 607 629 654 681 698.5 709 716 744 773 769.5 896 respectively. COMPLETE SETS OF FIRST PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE. Folio Society, hardcover
1895réf. 50894Harpers 1895. 8vo. First Edition thus on laid paper with etched frontispiece and full-page map of Wessex in the text endpapers lightly spotted; original decorative green ribbed cloth gilt 'TH' monogram blocked in gilt on upper cover gilt back gilt top uncut upper hinge cracked but binding entirely sound a very good bright clean crisp copy. 'Wessex Novels' 1895-6 published by Osgood McIlvaine UK and Harpers USA is the the first uniform and complete edition of Hardy's works. Each of the sixteen volumes has an etched frontispiece by Macbeth-Raeburn depicting a scene from the novel drawn on the spot in this case 'Egdon Heath' and a map of Wessex drawn by Hardy himself. In terms of book production these are undoubtedly the finest trade editions of Hardy's works. Sheets of the Osgood edition with an altered title-page were published in the USA by Harpers Osgood's successors. See Purdy pp.279-282. ALL VOLUMES OF THIS SERIES ARE SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Harpers, hardcover
