Wessex Poems and Other Verses

London: Harper & Brothers, 45 Albemarle Street, 1898. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Impression of the author's first collection of poems, one of only 500 copies. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): xi,[1],228pp, with 31 illustrations (13 full-page, including frontispiece) reproduced from drawings by Hardy. Publisher's original forest green bold-ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt medallion enclosing… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 210 pages; VG- condition hardcover; fully bound in green cloth, spine has gilt lettering, front cover has gilt tooling; binding has minimal wear along the top and bottom edges, spine has minor discoloration from sun exposure, has minor bumping on the fore edge corners, dent along head edge… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1926. Hardcover bound in soft leather with gilt printing and gilt decoration to front and to spine, plus gilt page block head. Very minor edgewear and slight bumps to spine ends. Light foxing of endpapers. Text is clean and unmarked throughout. AD. leather. Very Good. Used.

London: Harper & Brothers, 1898 Ediition of 500 . A bright firm copy with slight browning.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Original green publisher's cloth, gilt titling to spine, gilt monogram to front board. xi, 228 pp. With 30 illustrations by the author. Ink ownership description dated "Xmas/00" (1900). Some light bumping and rubbing to extremities, scuff to spine head. Roughly cut. A few spots of very… Read more about this item

1899. [illustrated by himself] With 30 Illustrations by the Author. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Original light green cloth pictorially decorated in orange, yellow-green, light blue and white. First American Edition of Hardy's first volume of verse, published about six weeks after the London one (which was dated 1898). This volume "marks the final emergence… Read more about this item

London: Harper & Brothers,, 1898. And why unblooms the best hope ever sown? First edition of Hardy's first book of poems, one of 500 copies, a very nice example in the original cloth. This collection "brought together newly written poems, poems composed during the novel-writing years, and still others revised from originals drafted in London during the 1860s. Because… Read more about this item

E-209: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Harper & Brothers, New York 1898. Viii, 209 pgs. Illustrated with thirty images by the author. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in green cloth boards with titles present to the spine and Thomas Hardy cipher present to the front board in gilt (The binding is uniform… Read more about this item

NY/London: Harper & Bros., 1899. Pictorial green cloth, t.e.g., other edges uncut.. Ex-library, back hinge repaired w/ tape, cover has 3/4" tear top front joint, a few marks in text, front hinge reglued: Good+ to VG-/no dj.. 8vo. 30 illustrations by the author in black & white.. First American Edition. Purdy, A-106.

Harper & Brothers. Collectible - Very Good. Condition: Very Good -; 8vo, 209 pages. Full bound green cloth with gilt titles and decoration on front board and spine. Illustrations throughout. Boards are dust soiled with some shelfwear, especially on spine. Head of spine has 2 small tears in cloth. Previous owner's name in ink on front free end… Read more about this item

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1898. First Edition. With 30 illustrations by the author. 8vo, publisher’s original blue ribbed cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, upper cover with Hardy’s floral monogram device in gilt. xi, 228 pp. A very handsome and pleasing copy, internally very fine and essentially pristine, the cloth… Read more about this item

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899 Book. Illus. by Thomas Hardy. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Small Octavo. viii + 210 pp + (2), b&w frontispiece, verso @1898, By the Same Author (list), preface (September, 1898), contents (approx 51 poems), ep (list of H&B works by Thackeray & George DuMaurier). Binding firm, paper Very Good, gilt… Read more about this item

MacMillan & Co. Ltd, 1920. Hardcover. Good. 1920. Reprint. 228 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are mildly tanned. Notable cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Heavy scuffing to pastedowns. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and light marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First American edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 8vo, 209 pp. With 30 Illustrations by the Author. Very light finger marks to covers, pages tanned.

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… Read more about this item

1 . hardback. Very Good. With 30 illustrations by the Author. 1st ed. NY (Harper) 1899. Pictorial cloth, top edge gilt., others untrimmed. Backstrip somewhat darkened else a fine copy.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. halftitle, (1), frontispiece, (4), title, (5), preface (7), Contents, (ix-xi), 228 pages. Collection of poems by the poet, Thomas Hardy. First Edition, First Printing. Book has slighlty faded boards, ex-libris stamp on pastedown front endpaper, bumped corners, and some indentations around edges, textbook slightly toned; endpapers moderately foxing with a penny size hole on… Read more about this item

Ryburn Publishing, Keele University Press. 1995. Hbk, 233pp, illustr in b+w, no dj as issued, fine maroon cloth with gilt titles and ornament, the Ryburn edition attempts to reproduce HardyÕs volumes in a form as close to the originals as possible, a new and unread copy, excellent clean tight unmarked, as new, becoming harder to find

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a