Author: Thomas Hardy
Title: Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles
Description: London, Macmillan, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of the penultimate collection of poetry of Thomas Hardy, in the publisher's original dust wrapper. The first edition of Thomas Hardy's penultimate poetry collection, widely considered to be his most cheerful collection, with Hardy himself noting his fears that he had been 'too liberal in selecting flippant, not to say farcical, pieces into the collection&apos.In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped.More sombre poems are also featured, with 'Nobody Comes' recording his lonely wait for his second wife Florence Dugdale to return after an operation in London.With three pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear, and an inscription, dated 1928, to the front endpaper, reading 'F. J. E. from C. E. K for Old Times' sake&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Front hinge lightly strained. Edgewear to dust wrapper back strip head and tail, with small chip to head of front joint. Small area at centre of back strip detached from wrapper, but present. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Majority of leaves unopened to head, including title page. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.

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