HARDY, THOMAS

The Dynasts

London, Macmillan and Co. 1904, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 1904; 1906; 1908. xxii, 228, v, (1), (2 ads.) pp.; xiii, [blank], 302, 2 (reviews) pp.; xiii, (blank), 355 pp. Original green cloth with gilt monogram device to front boards and gilt to spines. All volumes uncut. Volumes II and III unopened. Volume I: 1904 imprint; Volume II: 1906 first issue; Volume III: 1908 first issue. All volumes without cancellations. A very nice clean set of Hardy's epic verse drama of the Napoleonic wars with two of the volumes being still unopened!. Very Good.

Neale Williams Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 9718

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, Drama, British Writers, Thomas Hardy

Hardy, Thomas,

The Dynasts: a drama of the Napoleonic Wars: part first.

NY, Macmillan, 1904. 1st ed. G. Book ads last three pages. Edge wear, owner names fep.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS017425I

Catalogue: Entertainment

THOMAS HARDY.

The Dynasts. An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, and One Hundred and Thirty Scenes. The Time Covered by the Action Being About Ten Years.

Macmillan, London, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good .

Clearwater BooksProfessional seller

Book number: SPE0259

HARDY, Thomas

The dynasts: an epic drama of the war with Napoleon

Macmillan, 1910. Used - Good. Good hardback . 1st complete edition, 1910, in green cloth with gilt; frontis portrait. Tissue guard to frontis browned; text generally clean; wear at head & foot of spine Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_86406_jpg.jpg.

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS308317I

HARDY, Thomas

The dynasts

London, Macmillan, 1910. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dustjacket) . Tissue overlay to frontis browned; spine bumped & browned; with wear to cloth at head of back joint; board corners bumped. First complete edition Photo:.

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Book number: BOOKS008704I

Hardy, Thomas

The Dynasts _ a Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, & One Hundred and Thirty Scenes

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1944. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. brown cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 355 pp owner's name and year written in blue ink on front endpaper Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Good .

San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 75419

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Literature Play

HARDY Thomas

The Dynasts. An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon. And The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall. [Thin Paper Edition. First Edition thus]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Macmillan,, 1930. 8vo., First Edition thus, endpapers very lightly browned; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at extremities and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. The first Thin Paper edition combining 'The Dynasts' and 'The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall' in a single volume. Issued as Volume II of 'The Poetical Works', it is nevertheless complete in itself ('Volume I' collects the author's several volumes of poetry). 'The Dynasts' was originally published in three parts (1903, 1906, 1908) and first collected in a single ('Complete') volume in 1910. 'Queen of Cornwall' (1923) was re-issued in a second and considerably revised edition in the following year. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. See Purdy, pp.134 and 230.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 25030

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern firsts, literature, thomas hardy, thomas hardy, modern first editions, dynasts

HARDY Thomas

The Dynasts. An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon.. Parts I and II [with] Part III [and] The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall. [Pocket Edition.] POCKET EDITION IN MONOGRAM BINDING

Macmillan,, 1962-63. 2 vols., sm. 8vo., Pocket Edition; original series binding of plum cloth, upper boards blocked in blind with 'TH' monogram, backs gilt extra, red tops, a near fine set. The set comprises: Vol. I The Dynasts Parts I and II; Vol. II: The Dynasts Part II. The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall. An elegant set of the monogram issue in Macmillan's attractive Pocket edition. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 34965

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: literature, modern first editions, modern firsts, hardy, thomas hardy, wessex, dynasts, pocket edition

HARDY Thomas

The Dynasts. An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts and One Hundred and Thirty Scenes. The Time covered by the Action being about Ten Years. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

Macmillan,, [1925]. 8vo., with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present); blue ribbed cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Published as Vol. II of The Poetical Works but complete in itself.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 38146

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, hardy, thomas hardy, dynasts, napoleonic wars, napoleon

HARDY Thomas

The Dynasts. An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, & One Hundred and Thirty Scenes. The Time covered by the Action being about Ten Years. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION

Macmillan,, 1910. 8vo., First Collected Edition, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original green diced cloth, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The first collected edition of Hardy's monumental drama first issued in three separate parts in 1903 1905 and 1908. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Purdy p.134.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 45494

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, hardy, thomas hardy, dynasts

HARDY Thomas

The Dynasts. An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon. And The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall. [First Omnibus edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION

Macmillan,, [1931]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), small signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, gilt back, gilt top, an unusually bright, clean, crisp copy. The first edition to combine 'The Dynasts' and 'The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall' in a single volume. Issued as Volume II of 'The Poetical Works', it is nevertheless complete in itself (Volume I collects the author's several volumes of poetry). 'The Dynasts' was originally published in three parts (1903, 1906, 1908) and first collected in a single (complete) volume in 1910. 'The Queen of Cornwall' (1923) was re-issued in a second and considerably revised edition in the following year. See Purdy, pp. 134 and 230.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 45718

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: literature, modern first editions, modern firsts, hardy, thomas hardy, dynasts

HARDY Thomas

The Dynasts. An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon [with Time's Laughingstocks and other Verses. NEAR FINE SET OF THE WESSEX EDITION

Macmillan,, [1920]. 2 vols., 8vo., on laid paper, with frontispieces in photogravure toned in sepia (original tissue guards present), half-titles and titles in red and black, and double-page maps in the text, endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of plum cloth, backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, a near fine copy. With series advertisement leaf at end of each volume. The set comprises: Vol. I: The Dynasts Parts First and Second; Vol. II: The Dynasts Part Third; Time's Laughingstocks and other Verses. Macmillan's 'Wessex Edition' (the name was suggested by Frederick Macmillan himself) was intended as the definitive issue of Hardy's works incorporating all the author's final amendments. Published in 24 volumes between 1912 and 1931, it is beautifully printed on laid paper and elegantly bound. Each volume contains a fine frontispiece in sepia photogravure depcting a 'real-life' scene from the text (here they are 'The English Channel from Ridgeway Hill' and 'Wynyard's Gap in A Trampwoman's Tragedy) and a double-page 'Map of the Wessex of the Novels and Poems' made from Hardy's own drawing (now in the Dorset County Museum). 'The Wessex Edition is in every sense the definitive edition of Hardy's work and the last authority in questions of text' (Purdy). Individual volumes are now increasingly hard to find. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Purdy, pp.282-6.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 48030

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, hardy, thomas hardy, wessex, wessex novels, wessex edition, napoleon, napoleonic wars

HARDY Thomas

The Dynasts. An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon. Parts First and Second [with] Part Third. Time's Laughingstocks and other Verses. [Vols. XI, III of 'The Wessex Edition']. 'THE DYNASTS' COMPLETE IN THE WESSEX EDITION

Macmillan,, [1913-1920]. 2 vols., 8vo., on laid paper, with frontispieces in photogravure toned in sepia (original tissue guards present), half-titles and titles in red and black, and double-page map in the text; original series binding of maroon cloth, backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt, uncut, an unusually bright, crisp set. With series advertisement leaf at end of each volume. Personal bookplate on front paste-down of first volume; contemporary inscription on front paste-down of second volume. Macmillan's 'Wessex Edition' (the name was suggested by Frederick Macmillan himself) was intended as the definitive issue of Hardy's works incorporating all the author's final amendments. Published in 24 volumes between 1912 and 1931, it is beautifully printed on laid paper and elegantly bound. Each volume contains a fine frontispiece in sepia photogravure depicting a 'real-life' scene from the novel (here they are 'The English Channel from Ridgeway Hill' and ' Wynyard's Gap [in A Trampwoman's Tragedy]' respectively) and a double-page 'Map of the Wessex of the Novels and Poems' made from Hardy's own drawing (now in the Dorset County Museum). 'The Wessex Edition is in every sense the definitive edition of Hardy's work and the last authority in questions of text.' (Purdy). Individual volumes are now increasingly hard to find. See Purdy, pp. 282-6.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 50715

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, hardy, thomas hardy, wessex edition, wessex

Thomas Hardy

The Dynasts: A Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1910. Cloth. A smart copy of this closet drama from English Victorian writer Thomas Hardy. With a portrait frontispiece. A closet drama in verse and prose, being an epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes. The three parts were originally published in 1904, 1906 and 1908. Because of the ambition and scale of the work, Hardy acknowledged that The Dynasts was not a work that could be conventionally staged in the theatre. The first single volume edition of the work. Written by Thomas Hardy, an English novelist and poet, influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with light bumping to the extremities and the odd small mark to the cloth. A small split in the cloth to the head of the spine. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with minor age toning to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 927T57

Catalogue: Plays

Keywords: Dynasts Epic-Drama Napoleon Hardy Epic-Drama None

Thomas Hardy

The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, and One Hundred and Thirty Scenes, the Time Covered by the Action Being About Ten Years

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1918. Cloth. A very smart single-volume edition of Thomas Hardy's epic drama of the Napoleonic wars. The third impression of the complete edition (first published in 1910). In the publisher's original green cloth binding. 'The Dynasts' is an epic closet drama of the war with Napoleon, originally published as three volumes from 1904-1908 by Victorian realist novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy. In addition to the various historical figures, the drama contains tragic chorus of metaphysical figures, being "Spirits" and "Ancient Spirits" who observe and discuss the events. With a portrait frontispiece of the author. From the library of Paul Cairn Vellacott (1891-1954) who served as Headmaster of Harrow School and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. With two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Bookplate of Paul Cairn Vellacott to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with slight offsetting to the endpapers and the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 932Y45

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: The Dynasts Thomas Hardy Drama Play Thomas Hardy None