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	1 HARDY.THOMAS.; . A GROUP OF NOBLE DAMES. That is to say The First Countess of Wessex,Barbara of the house of Grebe,The Marchioness of Stonehenge,Lady Mottisfont.....etc. James R.Osgood McIlvane & Co.London.,1891  FIRST EDITION.Finely bound in recent half brown morocco,raised bands,red title label,gilt.Brown cloth on boards.Top edge gilt.An attractive copy.:  Price: 225.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	2 HARDY.THOMAS.; Allingham.Helen, & H.Paterson.Illustrate. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. Smith,Elder & Co.London.,1874  TWO VOLUMES.Second edition,the same year as the first.Twelve full page plates by Helen Allingham and H.Paterson.Thirteen pages in volume one have some underlining and marginalia in light blue ink.Repair to closed tear in title and contents page in volume one,otherwise a very good copy bound,without half titles,in recent half tan morocco.Spines with five raised bands.Gilt ruling,decoration and lettering.Marbled paper on boards.Top edges gilt.An attractive copy of the second edition,almost as elusive as the first.Only 500 copies were printed.After this edition the book was published as a single volume.:  Price: 500.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	3 HARDY.THOMAS.; NICHOLSON.WILLIAM.Illustrates. SELECTED POEMS OF THOMAS HARDY. With portrait & title page design engraved on the wood by William Nicholson. Philip Lee Warner,publisher to the Medici Society,for the Riccardi Press,London.,1921  LIMITED EDITION.Large 8vo.(9.5 x 6.7 inches).One of 1025 hand-numbered copies printed on handmade Riccardi paper,this number 723.Colour tinted wood engraving illustrations to the frontis (portrait of Hardy) and title page (an owl upon a small pile of books) by William Nicholson.Fine leather binding of recent full mid brown morocco.Spine with five raised bands,ruled in gilt.Compartments tooled in gilt.Red title label.Floral gilt border on boards.Top edge gilt,others untrimmed.A fine copy.:  Price: 400.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	4 HARDY.THOMAS.; LEIGHTON.CLARE.Illustrates. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE. Harper & Brothers.New York.,1929  LIMITED EDITION.One of 1500 copies numbered and signed by Clare Leighton.Illustarted with 12 full page and dozens of smaller wood engravings.FIRST LEIGHTON EDITION.Large 8vo.(9.5 x 6.6 inches).Finely bound in early full blue morocco,spine with raised bands,ruled in gilt.Compartments decorated and lettered in gilt.Boards with elaborate gilt decorated borders.Inner gilt dentelles.Top edge gilt.Plain blue endpapers.School prize bookplate on front paste down endpaper.Front blank endpaper has inscription "For Excellence in Public speaking" written in ink.Front board has circular school stamp in gilt.Some light rubbing to edges but overall a lovely copy in a highly atractive binding.:  Price: 300.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	5 HARDY.THOMAS.; . THE TRUMPET MAJOR. A Tale. Smith,Elder & Co.London.,1880  FIRST EDITION.Three volumes.A very good copy bound,with the half titles,in early twentieth century leather binding by Bayntun of Bath.Half red morocco,raised bands,gilt.Red cloth on boards.Top edges gilt.Housed in a red cloth covered slipcase.The joints have had some professional repair work but the set is still very good and looks attractive on the shelf.A scarce Hardy title in fine decorative bindings.:  Price: 2500.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	6 HARDY.THOMAS.; . THE WRITINGS. In prose and verse.With prefaces and notes.The Autograph Edition. Harper and Brothers.New York.,1915  LIMITED EDITION,SIGNED BY HARDY.One of only 153 sets.20 volumes,complete.8vo.Finely bound in recent full tan morocco,raised bands,gilt.Compartments with gilt decorations.Twin brown and green labels,gilt.Boards with ruled borders in gilt.Marbled endpapers,Top edges gilt,others untrimmed.Illustrated throughout with 80 photogravures on Japanese vellum.Leaf in one volume torn but not obscuring text.A fine set beautifully bound.The Autograph Edition. Limited to 153 sets only of which this is number 95 printed ad personum for Katherine Fay and signed by the Publisher and Hardy in volume 1.This edition intended to be the definitive Collected Works is one of the scarcest of any sets of “Works” by a major writer of the past 150 years.--Purdy.P.286.:  Price: 8500.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart