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UK,slim 12mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued(?),1st edn thus.NMINT.Noowner inscrptn.Bright,clean,colour
pictorial illustrated+decorated boards; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - almost as new.Top+fore-edges crisp,bright and clean,contents bright,tight and pristine - an unread copy.Decorated endpapers,headband,silk bookmark sewn in.UK,slim 12mo HB,1st edn thus,10-107pp [paginated] includes intro by Peter Harness,b/w portrait photograph of Thomas+Florence Hardy,facsimile manuscript of published poem,93 poems,5 colour illus/paintings,3 contemporary b/w photographs/illus throughout the paginated text; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,colour portrait frntis (Hardy by W.Strang,1893),contents list/table,monochrome portrait photograph of Emma Lavinia Gifford,and index of first lines to rear.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) began his writing career as a novelist,and left behind many classics of the form.However,
the negative reaction to 'Jude the Obscure' (1895) caused him to abandon prose… Read More