Wessex Poems and other verses.
by HARDY, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Harper & Brothers., 1898. First edition. Octavo. pp xii, 228. Thirty black-and-white illustrations by the author, some full-page and including a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Original gilt decorated green cloth. The author's first collection, containing fifty-one poems. Only 500 copies were printed. Short introduction by the author.Spotting to edges, endpapers and the tissue guard of the frontispiece. Corners of front cover a bit bumped. A very good indeed, bright copy.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HARDYTHO015186
- Title
- Wessex Poems and other verses.
- Author
- HARDY, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers.
- Date Published
- 1898
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