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Price: £25.00
Publisher: Vision/ Barnes & Noble. 1987 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 68372
Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Light scratches to front. Not price clipped). Small marks to fore edge. Author’s signature to main title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 190pp. The author examines Hardy’s process of the creation of his semi-real world of Wessex. View more info
Price: £14.00
Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1973 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 69850
Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly faded. Reinforced inside with brown sticky tape. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. Relevant newspaper clipping loose in back. 192pp. "Professor Davie argues that in British poetry of the last 50 years the most far-reaching influence, for good or ill, has been not Yeats, still less Eliot or Pound, but Thomas Hardy." View more info
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Heinemann 1978 (1st.):
Seller ID: 68378
Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Green endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Not price clipped). Signed by author on main title page. A clean and tight copy. 244pp. With b/w photographs. An outstanding literary biography, reveals Hardy’s sources of inspiration and sadness. "This is the second volume about Hardy’s life, and explores the deep currents that ran beneath the surface of this shy and secretive man, to emerge in the major novels of his middle age and in... View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Tabb House. Padstow 1982 (1st.).:
Seller ID: 53632
In olive green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. Brown endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine and front slightly faded. Small marks to spine). Price clipped. 100pp.8 b/w plates, incl. portrait. Excellent insight into the Life & Work of Thomas Hardy - perhaps the greatest of the 19th Century Regional Novelists View more info
Price: £16.00
Publisher: Herbert Jenkins. London. 1933 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 64607
Tall 8vo. In blue cloth covers lettered in dark blue to spine and front. Map on endpapers. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Corners slightly bumped. Inscription to front endpaper, dated ‘33. Occasional neat pencil underlinings. Else a clean and tight copy. 320pp. Portrait & num.full-page drawings of Wessex views by DOUGLAS SNOWDEN. View more info
By: (HARDY) MILLGATE, MICHAEL / DALZIEL, PAMELA (ed):
Price: £135.00
Publisher: Clarendon Press Oxford 1994 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 69632
Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. In near fine condition. A very clean and tight copy. 164pp. Facsimile page as frontispiece. Although containing early material copied from earlier notebooks, this is a late working notebook devoted to verse and to Hardy’s ideas for new poems. Meticulously edited with full scholarly annotation. View more info
By: (HARDY) PORTER, PETER (ed):
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. London. 1981 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 82618
Size 6.75 x 9.25 inches. In orange cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Inscription from photographer: “For Jean with gratitude & affection Yours John”. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; price clipped, handling marks). Bottom corners bumped. A clean and tight copy. 128pp. With b/w photographs. This anthology covers the broad span of Hardy’s poetic achievement, from the evocative Cornish scenes of his courtship and the Wessex poems to the incomparable later laments. Although much has changed since Hardy’s day, much is st... View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: NY: Russell & Russell 1969:
Seller ID: 53118
In original grey cloth with red to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; a little rubbed and faded with small tear on bottom front edge. In removable plastic cover). A clean tight copy. 276pp; Bibliography of works about Hardy published up to and including his Centenary in 1940. Re-issued in 1969. View more info
Price: £125.00
Publisher: Plush, Dorset, Plush Publishing, 2004:
Seller ID: 79311
Large paperback, approx 11.5 x 8 inches. Glossy green paperback covers with black lettering and colour photo illustration to front. In very good near fine condition. Author’s presentation inscription to preliminary title page “To Maureen Keats, with best wishes from Claudius Beatty”. Else very clean and tight. 11pp; b/w Illustration on front cover. Beatty’s Degree Thesis for 1963 & Monograph on Hardy’s career in Architecture giving dates and places. View more info
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Plush, Dorset, Plush Publishing, 2004:
Seller ID: 82620
Large paperback, approx 11.5 x 8 inches. Glossy green paperback covers with black lettering and colour photo illustration to front. In very good near fine condition. Front corners slightly rubbed. Else very clean and tight. 11pp; b/w Illustration on front cover. Beatty’s Degree Thesis for 1963 & Monograph on Hardy’s career in Architecture giving dates and places. View more info
Price: £9.00
Publisher: Allen Lane. 1983 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 70574
Size 10.75 x 10.25 inches. In cream cloth covers with brown lettering to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; small marks to front. Price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 141pp. With colour and b/w illustrations. Beautifully illustrated depiction of the Dorset of Thomas Hardy, drawn and painted by Gordon Beningfield. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Allen Lane. 1983 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 71149
Size 10.75 x 10.25 inches. In cream cloth covers with brown lettering to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; small marks to front. Price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 141pp. With colour and b/w illustrations. Beautifully illustrated depiction of the Dorset of Thomas Hardy, drawn and painted by Gordon Beningfield. View more info
By: BIGGS, JOHN R. / MASTERS, JAMES E.:
Price: £7.00
Publisher: Book in Hand, Shaftesbury. 1983. facs repr.:
Seller ID: 68137
Size 5.5 x 9.0 inches. In orange cloth covers with gilt to maroon cloth spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrappwr (dw; slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. Unpaginated with b/w woodcuts. Facsimile reprint of a book, from High House Press, of twelve woodcuts showing aspects of Shaftesbury, Dorset. View more info
By: COX, J.STEVENS / COX, G.STEVENS (ed):
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Toucan Press, Guernsey. 1989:
Seller ID: 58617
Pamphlet. In illustrated limp card covers. In very good condition. 80pp. With cover and frontis b/w portrait of Typhena Sparks. This edition is an article on Thomas Hardy’s Relatives and their times: Some “Sparks” Letters and Other Documents by Professor John R. Doheny. View more info
Price: £16.00
Publisher: Adams & Dart 1972 (1st.).:
Seller ID: 53949
Tall 8vo. In light brown cloth covers with gilt to blue label on spine. With dustwrapper. Very good in very good pict. dustwrapper (dw; slight darkening around the top. In removable plastic cover. Pubs. details stapled to plastic cover.) Not price clipped. Slight browning to front endpapers. Else a clena and tight copy. 206pp. 49 photo.plates. Map on endpapers. A biographical study of Thomas Hardy and his works. A map of Wessex on endpapers. Literary biographer and essayist F E Halliday’s very readable and enjoyable biography of the great Wessex poet and novelist. The dustwrapper picture... View more info
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Greenwood Press, New York. 1969:
Seller ID: 53623
Tall 8vo.In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded with small bump at back edge. Slight browning to endpapers. Owner’s bookplate on first title page. A clean and tight copy. 122 pp. A study and critique of Hardy’s epic poem. View more info
By: HARDY / SEYMOUR-SMITH, MARTIN:
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury 1994 (1st.).:
Seller ID: 78267
Size 6.0 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maroon endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 886pp. With b/w photographs and illustrations. A “radical reappraisal”. A biography which shows Thomas Hardy in a new light. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Frank Hollings 1916 (1st.).:
Seller ID: 68834
Size 5.5 x 8.0 inches. In dark green cloth covers with gilt to spine and TH monogram on front cover. Top edge gilt. Ex library copy in very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Library label to front endpaper. Library rubber stamps to endpapers, half title and blank backs of plates. Else a clean and tight copy. 128pp. With b/w portrait frontis and fasimile handwritten pages. Bibliography listing the first editions of Hardy’s works up to 1915. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Macmillan, London. 1983 1st:
Seller ID: 80248
Hardback, 10 x 7.5 inches. In light blue cloth covers with silver lettering to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine faded, chipped at top end, Not price clipped.) Else a clean and tight copy. 202pp. Illustrated with colour plates & b&w photographs. An exploration and a celebration of the part-real, part-dream country created by Thomas Hardy, which embraces the central heartland of Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset; the New Forest; Devon and the coast of North Cornwall. Desmond Hawkins takes as his principal theme those areas which most dyna... View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London & New York, David & Charles / Barnes & Noble, 1976 1st UK edition.:
Seller ID: 81021
Size 9 x 5.5 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Edges rubbed, Thin stain to rear top edge, some fading to front and spine. Not price clipped). Neat inscription to front endpaper, else a very clean and tight copy. 247pp. With b/w photographs and illustrations. The author presents Hardy’s career chronologically and places the novels and poetry within the context of his life, friendships and marriages. View more info