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Fall Great Estates Curated Auction
Lot 134:
Thomas Hardy (England, 1840-1928). 3 first edition books. Winter Words, Poems of the Past and the Present, Wessex Poems.
Winter Words. In Various Moods and Metres. First edition, 1928. Macmillan & Co. Limited, St. Martin’s Street, London. Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh. The Holiday Bookshop, New York label rear pastedown. Stanley J. Keyes bookplate front pastedown, ex-libris. Paper dust jacket. Pages unopened. Tears and losses to dust jacket, corners bumped, some fraying to spine, binding loose.
Poems of the Past and Present. First edition, 1902. Harper & Brothers, London and New York; printed by Ballantyne, Handon & Co., Edinburgh & London. Stanley J. Keyes bookplate front endpaper, ex-libris. Binding loose, foxing, boards separating at front and rear pastedowns, corners bumped and fraying, some wear to spine.
Wessex Poems and Other Verses. First edition, 1898. Harper & Brothers, London and New York. Half title page Thomas Hardy’s Works Wessex Poems. Binding loose, front and back boards separating at pastedowns, corners bumped and fraying, some fraying to spine.
Provenance: Wessex Poems and Poems of the Past both Sotheby Parke Bernet, sale 3605, lot 609, 2/28 – 2/29, 1974; all private collection, New York City; thence by descent.
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