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