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. The Works.London : 1919-20
The Mellstock edition, one of 500 sets signed by the author on the limitation page of volume I. The Mellstock is one of the most attractive collected editions of Hardy, printed in a clear and legible type, this set finely bound by Morrell.
At Hardy's suggestion the edition was named after his fictional "Mellstock", a combination of the... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 110543
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HARDY, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge.London : 1886
First edition in book form, the first complete publication of the text, having been published in a bowdlerized text in both the Graphic and Harper's Weekly from 2 January to 15 May 1886. The book was published on 10 May 1886 in 758 copies, of which only 650 were bound; it is consequently scarce, especially in the original cloth.
The novel is... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 138987
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1919-20
The Mellstock edition, one of 500 sets signed by the author on the limitation page of volume I. The Mellstock is one of the most attractive collected editions of Hardy, printed in a clear and legible type, this set in an attractive binding by the noted Atelier Bindery for Charles Scribner's Sons.
At Hardy's suggestion the edition was... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 105784
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1919-20
The Mellstock edition, one of 500 sets signed by the author on the limitation page of volume I. The Mellstock is one of the most attractive collected editions of Hardy, printed in a clear and legible type, this set in the original cloth in notably bright condition.
With the bookplate of James MacLehose (1857-1943) to the front pastedown,... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 96658
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1920
The Mellstock edition, one of 500 sets signed by the author on the limitation page of volume I. The Mellstock is one of the most attractive collected editions of Hardy, printed in a clear and legible type, this copy in an attractive binding in lovely condition.
At Hardy's suggestion the edition was named after his fictional "Mellstock",... Learn More£18,750.00Stock Code: 144165
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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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.
This set is beautifully bound by the bindery of Whitman Bennett in New... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 136745
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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, 1874; The Hand of Ethelberta,... 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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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 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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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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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... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 122552
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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, WorldCat 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: 139310
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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, WorldCat 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 Book,... 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 of "one of the main foundation stones of the Nelson legend" (Cannadine, p. 99); Lowndes notes that "1200 copies were subscribed for". Clarke and McArthur's book is fittingly handsome, being printed by Thomas Bensley, one of the best printers of the day, on superior quality paper.
John McArthur, a former naval purser, had served... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 72337
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BLOMFIELD, Arthur W., & Son. Series of Original Architect's Drawings for the proposed new church, Park Walk, Chelsea, SW.London : 1912
Approved architect's design drawings for this attractive Edwardian gothic revival church, which stands unaltered today. The Church of St. Andrew was built as a replacement for the small eighteenth-century chapel - Park, later Emmanuel, Chapel - on the east side of the road, originally called Twopenny Walk. The freehold of the site was given by Major... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 62166
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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 of "one of the main foundation stones of the Nelson legend" (Cannadine, p. 99); Lowndes notes that "1200 copies were subscribed for", this a handsome copy with an appealing maritime provenance. Clarke and McArthur's book is fittingly handsome, being printed by Thomas Bensley, one of the best printers of the day, on superior quality paper.... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 46705
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OMAR KHAYYÁM. Rubáiyát.Portland, ME : May 1899
First edition thus, number 6 of 10 copies printed on vellum by Mosher and Grigsby, this copy additionally inscribed on the second blank, "To John Law, in friendship, Emilié Grigsby, May 23rd 1901". Mosher had produced small format editions of the Rubaiyat before, but this is the first large format Rubaiyat he achieved, and the first printed on pure... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 127254
