Search results for: 'HARDY, Thomas'
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HARDY, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge.London : 1886
First edition in book form, presentation copy of volume I, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To the Hon. Mrs Jeune, from Thomas Hardy". Presentation copies are highly uncommon, with just two copies traced at auction. The recipient, Mary Jeune, later Baroness St Helier (1848-1931), was a prolific essayist (publishing around 50 periodical... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 119901
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(GRAVES, Robert, ed.) HARDY, Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, et al. The Owl.London : 1919-23
First editions, first impressions, the first number being from the very scarce signed limited issue, one of 24 unnumbered copies signed by the 18 contributors: Max Beerbohm, George Belcher, Pamela Biano, W. H. Davies, John Galsworthy, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, Eric Kennington, J. Masefield, Robert Nichols, Nancy Nicholson, W. Nicholson, William Orpen,... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 139994
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(GRAVES, Robert, ed.) HARDY, Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, et al. The Owl.London : 1919-23
First editions, first impressions, the first number being from the very scarce signed limited issue, one of 24 unnumbered copies signed by the 18 contributors: Max Beerbohm, George Belcher, Pamela Biano, W. H. Davies, John Galsworthy, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, Eric Kennington, J. Masefield, Robert Nichols, Nancy Nicholson, W. Nicholson, William Orpen,... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 139992
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HARDY, Thomas. A Changed Man. The Waiting Supper and Other Tales. Concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a MilkmaidNew York : [October] 1913
First American edition. Inscribed by Hardy on the front free endpaper: "To/ Miss Teresa Fetherstonhaugh/ from/ Thomas Hardy." Teresa Charlotte Fetherstonhaugh (1856-1929) was a friend of Thomas and Emma Hardy's, as well as T.E. Lawrence's cousin. Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 128089
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HARDY, Thomas. Compassion.Dorchester : 1924
First edition, sole impression, number 8 of 25 copies numbered and initialled by Florence Emily Hardy; this copy is additionally signed by the author at the end of the poem. Hardy wrote this work at the request of the RSPCA as part of their centenary celebrations. It was printed in The Times on 16 June 1924, where it was stated that there was... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 126133
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1919-20
The Mellstock Edition, a deluxe edition limited to 500 copies signed by the author on a preliminary leaf in Volume 1. Initially discussed as early as July 1914, the start of World War I halted production and the actual publication did not begin until December 1919. The edition name is a reference to the mythical "Mellstock" of Hardy's fiction, a combination... Learn More£10,500.00Stock Code: 68715
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1919-20
The Mellstock edition, a deluxe edition limited to 500 copies signed by the author on the limitation page in volume I. Initially discussed as early as July 1914, the start of the Great War halted production and the actual publication did not begin until December 1919. The edition name is a reference to the mythical "Mellstock" of Hardy's fiction, a... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 110543
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HARDY, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge.London : 1886
First edition in book form, and the first complete publication of the text, with the novel originally published in a bowdlerized text in both the Graphic and Harper's Weekly from 2 January to 15 May 1886. The print run when published in the present book-form on 10 May 1886 was 758 copies, of which only 650 were bound, and it is consequently... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 138987
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HARDY, Thomas. The Writings. In prose and verse. With prefaces and notes.New York & London : [1915]
The Autograph edition, limited to 153 sets signed by the author on an inserted leaf, this set number 3 bound ad personam for the American collector William Beers Crowell. The edition was based on the first 21 volumes of the Wessex Edition, "the definitive edition and last authority in questions of text" (Purdy), combining The Well-Beloved and A Group... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 115614
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1919-20
The Mellstock Edition, a deluxe edition limited to 500 copies signed by the author on the limitation page in volume I. Initially discussed as early as July 1914, the start of the Great War halted production and the actual publication did not begin until December 1919. The edition name is a reference to the mythical "Mellstock" of Hardy's fiction, a... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 105784
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HARDY, Thomas. The Trumpet-Major.London : 1880
First edition in book form of one of Hardy's lesser-known novels. Written during the year 1879 and serialised in the magazine Good Words (where it was bowdlerized by the Scottish clergyman editor), it is a tale in which Hardy compiled the three separate strands which at that time most affected his life. One strand was his own Dorset background, and... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 118886
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HARDY, Thomas. The Writings.New York : [1920]
The Anniversary Edition, issued to celebrate Hardy's eightieth birthday. One of a limited edition of 1,250 numbered set of which this is number 74. An excellent collected edition that is particularly well printed and handsomely bound. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 133908
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HARDY, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd.London : 1874
First edition in book form, one of 1,000 copies published on 23 November 1874. Hardy's fourth novel was serialized anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine from January to December 1874, prompting a reviewer for the Spectator to remark that "If 'Far from the Madding Crowd' is not written by George Eliot, then there is a new light among novelists". Hardy's... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 128066
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works in Prose and Verse.London : 1919-26
The Wessex Edition, the definitive edition of Hardy's works, and a finely bound set. The set is complete other than for Jude the Obscure and Human Shows. The books are later impressions, with the edition first printed between 1912 and 1926, other than Human Shows which was printed in 1931; this set may have been bound before it was issued. For the Wessex... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 132753
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HARDY, Thomas. Jude the Obscure.London : 1896
First edition in book form, this copy entirely in the first state (with pagination to all the partially blank pages in signatures A-H).
Jude the Obscure was Hardy's last novel, in which he "deliberately attacked the existing educational system and marriage laws. The novel's sexual directness fuelled the hostility of its reception in some quarters,... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 139742
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works. In Prose and Verse with Preface and Notes.New York : 1920
The Anniversary edition. Limited to 1250 sets of which this is number 146. This edition was issued as a celebration of Hardy's 80th year. Unusual in a contemporary binding. Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 17846
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HARDY, Thomas. A Laodicean;London : 1881
First edition. A Laodicean initially appeared as a serial in the European edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine from December 1880 to December 1881, and in Harper's in America between January 1881 and January 1882. Each instalment featured an illustration by George du Maurier, who had already illustrated another of Hardy's serials, The Hand of Ethelberta.... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 62259
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HARDY, Thomas. The Writings.New York : 1920
The Anniversary Edition, issued to celebrate Hardy's eightieth birthday. One of a limited edition of 1,250 numbered sets. An excellent collected edition that is particularly well printed and handsomely bound. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 68630
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HARDY, Thomas. Wessex Poems.London : 1898
First edition, one of 500 copies. An exceptional copy of Hardy's first volume of verse, rare thus. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 134116
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works in Prose and Verse.London : 1919-31
The Wessex Edition, the definitive edition of Hardy's works, and a finely bound set. Macmillan became Hardy's publishers in 1902 and "in 1912 they undertook a new and definitive edition, called (at Frederick Macmillan's suggestion) the 'Wessex Edition'. For this edition Hardy revised his novels throughout for the last time In a 'General Preface to... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 125755
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HARDY, Thomas. The Trumpet Major.London : 1880
First edition in book form of Hardy's great novel of the Napoleonic war, written to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Trafalgar. Purdy notes that the novel was published in an edition of 1,000 copies and remarks that the three-line border "is less common than the 2-rule binding". The story was first published in slightly bowdlerized form in Good Words,... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 62939
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HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles.London : 1926
Signed limited edition, one of 325 large paper copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author, the first edition illustrated by Vivian Gribble: "Perhaps her finest work was done for an edition of Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, published by Macmillan in 1926 and containing 41 exquisite wood engravings. Gribble's engravings were always... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 132503
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HARDY, Thomas. The Writings.New York : [1920]
The Anniversary Edition, issued to celebrate Hardy's 80th birthday, out of series from an edition of 1,250 sets. From the library of the American intellectual Gore Vidal, unmarked as such, but with a certificate of provenance from the dealer to whom Vidal's library was sold. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 136745
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HARDY, Thomas. Wessex Tales.London : 1888
First edition in book form. An attractively bound copy of this collection of five stories, including The Withered Arm, which were previously published in serial form. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 123136
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HARDY, Thomas. The Woodlanders.London : 1887
First edition, one of 860 copies bound (of 1,000 printed), in the publisher's primary binding. Hardy occasionally described The Woodlanders as his best and favourite novel, "set in the part of north-west Dorset in which Hardy's mother's family had lived. Although it lacks the structural assurance of its predecessor, its plot again depends on... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 128075
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HARDY, Thomas. Jude the Obscure.London : 1896
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 82600
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1919-20
The Mellstock edition, consisting of 500 unnumbered copies, with the first volume signed by Hardy. With the bookplate of James MacLehose (1857-1943) to the front pastedown, engraved by David Young Cameron, a fellow Glaswegian. MacLehose, a publisher and printer himself, was also the son-in-law of Alexander Macmillan, one of the founders of the firm... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 96658
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HARDY, Thomas. The Trumpet-Major.London : 1880
First edition in book form of Hardy's great novel of the Napoleonic war, written to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Trafalgar. The story was first published in slightly bowdlerized form in Good Words, Jan-Dec 1880, with the book edition published on 26 October 1880 "in an edition of 1000 copies" (Purdy), though sales were slow and 250 sets of sheets... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 106245
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HARDY, Thomas. A Laodicean;London : 1881
First edition, printed in early December 1881 "in an edition presumably of 1,000 copies" (Purdy), rare in the original cloth; this copy from the library of Walter E. Smith, the pre-eminent modern bibliographer of Victorian fiction, with his pencilled ownership inscription to the front free endpaper of each volume. A Laodicean originally appeared as... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 106269
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HARDY, Thomas. Complete set of first editions of the novels and short story collections.London : 1871-97
A complete set of first editions, finely bound, of Hardy's novels and short story collections.
The entire collection, with all half-titles and illustrations present as called for, comprises the following: Desperate Remedies, 1871; Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872; A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1873; Far From the Madding Crowd,... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 126114
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BENTLEY, Nicolas. Thomas Hardy.c. 1965
The cartoons and illustrations of Nicolas Bentley (1907-1978) were part of the warp and weft of English popular culture in the 1950s and 60s. Never savage, though often waspishly accurate and exuding an urbane air of amusement at the foibles of his fellows, Bentley's work was familiar to the public from a wide variety of publications. Between 1952 and... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 67067
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BLUNDEN, Edmund. Thomas Hardy.London : 1941
First edition, first impression. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 104948
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MARSH, Edward. Edward Marsh's Little Book.Eton : 1990
First edition, limited issue, number 417 of 626 copies (26 were deluxe signed copies). This is the first printing, reproducing the original in facsimile, of the notebook presented in 1911 by Lady Diana Cooper to Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953), who was Winston Churchill's secretary and a great literary impresario in his own right. Marsh determined "to... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 139388
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ROTHENSTEIN, William. Twenty-Four Portraits.London : 1920
First edition, first impression of this collection of twenty-four portraits or authors, artists, and intellectuals by William Rothenstein, including Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, André Gide, Thomas Hardy, T. E. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, and H. G. Wells. Provenance: from the library of Conrad collector Stanley J. Seeger, with his bookplate. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 84657
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MARSH, Edward. Edward Marsh's Little Book.Eton : 1990
First edition, limited issue, number 49 of 626 copies (26 were deluxe signed copies). This is the first printing, reproducing the original in facsimile, of the notebook presented in 1911 by Lady Diana Cooper to Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953), who was Winston Churchill's secretary and a great literary impresario in his own right. Marsh determined "to ask... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 139254
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(ARIEL POEMS.) Complete collection of the first 8 Ariel Poems.[London : 1927
A finely bound collection of the first eight titles in the Ariel Poems series, comprising Yuletide in a Younger World by Thomas Hardy, drawings by Albert Rutherston; The Linnet's Nest by Henry Newbolt, drawings by Ralph Keene; The Wonder Night by Laurence Binyon, drawings by Barnett Freedman; Alone by Walter de la Mare, wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton;... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 122684
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CLARKE, James Stanier, & John M'Arthur. The Life and Services of Horatio, Viscount Nelson, from His Lordship's Manuscripts.London : [1840]
Second complete edition, preceded by the 1809 first edition in two weighty folio volumes, and a much abridged single octavo edition in 1810; this edition was more manageable than the first, and originally issued in seven parts to be bound, as here, in three. It includes three appendices published for the first time: the recollections of Tom Allen, Nelson's... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140504
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(GALTON, Francis.) HOLLYER, Frederick. Half-length photographic portrait of Francis Galton, side profile, seated at a desk, poised to write.[London : 1899
A striking photographic portrait of the human geneticist and eugenicist Francis Galton, taken by Frederick Hollyer, the great late 19th-century celebrity photographer.
Hollyer (1837-1933) was highly regarded for his fine platinum print reproductions of paintings, particularly those by the Pre-Raphaelites, who he met in 1860 and whose work he did... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 122552
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CAVELL, Edith Louisa. Autograph letter signed by the nurse and war heroine, providing a professional reference for a former member of her staff in Belgium.Brussels : 1913
Autograph letter signed "E. Cavell, Matron", her retained file copy, dating from her time as the director of a nurses' training school in Brussels, just two years before her controversial execution by a German firing squad for treason. In this succinct letter Cavell (1865-1915) provides a reference for one Miss Hardy, affirming that "she has nursed... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 127702
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GRIFFITHS, Anselm John. Observations on some Points of Seamanship;Cheltenham : 1824
First Edition. Uncommon, Library Hub lists BL, National Museums Scotland, Cardiff and NLW for this edition, OCLC adds nine further copies including NMM, NYPL, and the US Navy Department Library. A wide-ranging guide on matters naval intended to "assist the rising officer in forming correct conclusions" (preface), it was first published at the expense... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 89797
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SIDNEY, Sir Philip. The Sonnets.[London] : 1898
First and limited edition, first impression, one of 210 copies on paper. This edition is decorated by Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), an outstanding art nouveau designer with notable work for commercial publishers including Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), John Gray's Silverpoints (1893) and Oscar Wilde's The Sphinx (1895). Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 122096
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FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love.London : 1957
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by Fleming on the front free endpaper: "To Erich Hartmann from his impatient patient. Ian Fleming". The recipient, Erich Hartmann (1922-1999), was the head of Magnum Photo, who "throughout his career, pursued many long-term personal projects, and photographic interpretations with literary... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 138464
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ALLEN, Grant. The Woman Who Did.London : 1895
First edition, number 8 in Lane's Keynotes series. The Keynotes Series, comprising 33 novels and short story collections, was published in a distinctive format, featuring Aubrey Beardsley's cover designs and embellishments, by John Lane between 1893 and 1897; Beardsley produced the designs for 22 Keynotes volumes while he was working on The Yellow... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 137123
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CLARKE, James Stanier, & John McArthur. The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. From His Lordship's Manuscripts.London : 1809
First edition. "One of the main foundation stones of the Nelson legend" (Wilson, 'Nelson Apotheosised' in Cannadine (ed.), Admiral Lord Nelson), "the 'official' biography" (NMM). M'Arthur, a former naval purser, had served with Nelson in the Mediterranean and had already begun collecting material for a biography when he saw "an advertisement in the... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 72337
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CLARKE, James Stanier, & John McArthur. The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. From His Lordship's Manuscripts.1809
First edition. "One of the main foundation stones of the Nelson legend" (Wilson, "Nelson Apotheosised" in Cannadine (ed.), Admiral Lord Nelson). McArthur, a former naval purser, had served with Nelson in the Mediterranean and had already begun collecting material for a biography when he saw "an advertisement in the papers announcing that the Nelson... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 46705
