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Fall Great Estates Curated Auction
Lot 128:
Thomas Hardy (England, 1840-1928). 5 literary magazines with short stories. Other authors featured in magazines include Israel Zangwill, Geroge Meredith, Henry James, George Washington, Robert Louis Stevenson, J. Alden Weir. All in yellow cloth cases and yellow cloth slipcases with leather titles on spines.
A Changed Man: The Cosmopolitan, an Illustrated Monthly Magazine, May, 1900, volume XXIX, number 1.
An Imaginative Woman: The Pall Mall Magazine, April, 1894, volume II, number 12.
The Tramp-Woman’s Tragedy: The North American Review, November 1903, volume 177, number 5. Also includes part XI of Henry James’s The Ambassadors.
How I Built Myself a House: Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art. March 18, 1865. Fourth series, number 64. Hardy’s first appearance in print.
The Fiddler of the Reels: Scribners Magazine, May 1893, volume XIII, number 5.
Light wear and discoloration to slipcases and cases, notations in pencil on Chambers’s, some pages in Chambers’s loose from binding; minor wear, losses, tears and discoloration to all.
Provenance: all Sotheby Parke Bernet, Madison Avenue, New York, sale 3605, lot 609, 2/27 – 2/28, 1974; private collection, New York City; thence by descent.
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