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Fall Great Estates Curated Auction
Lot 142:
5 books on Thomas Hardy.
A.P. Webb. A Bibliography of the Works of Thomas Hardy 1865-1915. First edition, 1916. Frank Hollings, London. Stanley J. Keyes bookplate, ex-libris. Corners bumped, some fraying to spine.
Lionel Johnson. The Art of Thomas Hardy. First edition, 1894. Elkin Matthews and John Lane, London; Dodd, Mead and Company, New York. Boards worn and discolored, fraying and wear to spine, corners bumped and worn, pages warped along top edge, notations in pencil title page and rear pastedown.
Samuel C. Chew. Thomas Hardy Poet & Novelist. 1928. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. With paper dust jacket. Corners bumped, some wear to corners, tears and losses to dust jacket (some pieces present).
F. Outwin Saxelby. A Thomas Hardy Dictionary. The Characters and Scenes of the Novels and Poems. Alphabetically Arranged and Described. 1911. George Routledge and Sons, Limited, London; E.P. Dutton and Co., New York; The Musson Book Company, Ltd., Toronto. Corners bumped, fraying and wear to spine, some wear to edges, binding loose.
A. Edward Newton. Thomas Hardy, Novelist or Poet? First edition, 1929. Privately printed by Edward Stern & Co., Inc., Philadelphia. From a limited edition of 950 copies. In blue cloth case. Tears, losses and wear to case (some pieces present).
Webb, Johnson, Chew, Outwin, Newton all 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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