HARDY Thomas

The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. New Wessex Edition. Edited by James Gibson. Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Macmillan,, [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.

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Book number: 46922

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

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HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928)

Wessex Poems and Other Verses

London, Harper & Brothers, 45 Albemarle Street, 1898. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Impression of the author's first collection of poems, one of only 500 copies. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): xi,[1],228pp, with 31 illustrations (13 full-page, including frontispiece) reproduced from drawings by Hardy. Publisher's original forest green bold-ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt medallion enclosing TH monogram to upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut. Ex libris of Harald Pedersen (1888-1945), Norwegian metallurgist, politician, and Nazi collaborator. End sheets lightly foxed, else a superlative example, virtually pristine, on heavy paper, very tightly bound. Purdy, pp. 96-106. Hayward 310. Wolff 2998. Webb, pp. 97-98. Hardy considered himself primarily a poet, claiming that his extraordinary novel-writing career was the result of financial expediency. Hardy had been working on this collection of 51 poems since the 1860s. "But it was only on the cusp of the twentieth century, feeling financially secure and with a reputation as one of the most distinguished novelists of the day, that he felt free to withdraw from prose fiction and follow his inclination toward poetry." , Hardy's career as a publishing poet spanned almost thirty years, from 1898 until the publication of Winter Words a few months after his death in 1928. Chiefly written in the lyric and ballad form, Hardy's poetry explores the themes of rural life and nature, love and loss, cosmic indifference, the ravages of time, the inevitability of death and inhuman ironies of war." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Book number: BB1776

Catalogue: MODERN FIRSTS

Thomas Hardy

Wessex Poems and Other Verses

London, Harper & Brothers, 1898. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K. edition of this anthology of poems set in Dorset by Thomas Hardy. The first U.K. edition of this work.'Wessex Poems' collects together fifty-one poems by Thomas Hardy.The verse in this volume are set against the Dorset landscape, portrayed as bleak and forbidding. Including 'The Temporary of All', 'Hap', 'Amabel', 'A Confession to a Friend in Trouble', 'Neutral Tones', 'The Dance at the Phoenix', and more.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and in-text illustrations throughout, by the author. Collated, complete.Thomas Hardy, was better known as a novelist, who was influenced by Romanticism. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. very light rubbing to the cloth. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, binding is strained in places. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Thomas Hardy. Very Good .

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Book number: 948P14

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Wessex Poems and Other Verses wessex poetry thomas hardy wessex Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

Wessex Poems and Other Verses

Toronto, George N. Morang & Company Limited, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first Canadian edition of this anthology of poems by Thomas Hardy, complete with illustrations by the author. The very scarce first Canadian edition, published the year after the first U.K. edition.'Wessex Poems' collects together fifty-one poems by Thomas Hardy.The verse in this volume are set against the Dorset landscape, portrayed as bleak and forbidding. Including 'The Temporary of All', 'Hap', 'Amabel', 'A Confession to a Friend in Trouble', 'Neutral Tones', 'The Dance at the Phoenix', and more.Illustrated with a frontispiece, twelve plates, and in-text illustrations throughout, by the author.Thomas Hardy, was better known as a novelist, who was influenced by Romanticism.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is discoloured. Light rubbing to the spine. A few minor marks to the cloth. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a few light handling marks. First gathering is working loose. Very Good . Ill.: Thomas Hardy. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 948P15

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Wessex Poems and Other Verses poetry wessex poems poetry Thomas Hardy