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Selected poems (The Riccardi Press books)
by Hardy, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
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About This Item
Riccardi Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1921. Limited Edition. Hardcover. #343/1000. Printed at the Chiswick Press in the Riccardi fount on Riccardi hand-made paper, deckled pages. Top edge gilt. Tan linen spine over blue cardboard. Tan spine label bright and readable, as is beige title label. (Two extra spine labels bound in to rear endpaper. ) Light staining to front board, offset browning to front free-endpaper. Frontis illust with tissue-guard overlay. Binding tight and straight, inner pages unmarked. Blue silk marker ribbon. .
Synopsis
Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth—Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, Hardy was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, Hardy published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels— Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure —he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poet’s Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy.
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- Books On The Boulevard
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57887
- Title
- Selected poems (The Riccardi Press books)
- Author
- Hardy, Thomas
- Illustrator
- William Nicholson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Riccardi Press
- Date Published
- 1921
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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