Lot 165
Hardy, Thomas
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 5 September 2007 at 12:00 BST
Description
The melancholy hussar [in] three notable stories. London, 1890, first printing in book form, first issue with the Marquis of Lorne incorrectly styled K.G., 4 pages of advertisements, original blue cloth lettered in black, bookplates of A. Edward Newton and Hugh Roberts Parrish, browning to endpapers and half-title, binding slightly stained, spine chipped at head and foot, hinges weak and another copy, later issue with cancel title correcting K.G. to K.T., 4 pages of advertisements and publisher's catalogue dated September 1889, original pictorial grey cloth, hinges tender, covers slightly faded, extremities rubbed; Ibid Life's little Ironies. A Set of Tales with Some Colloquial Sketches entitled A Few crusted characters. London, 1894, first edition, ownership inscription of Hardy's cousin, John Antell (dated Easter 1894), original green cloth blocked in brown and lettered in gilt, browning to endpapers, extremities rubbed; Ibid Life's little ironies. London, 1894, Colonial Library edition (issued in the same year as the first edition), original printed wrappers, advertisements at end dated 20 July 1894, wrappers somewhat stained and chipped, spine worn and beginning to split; Ibid Life's little ironies. London, 1895, Colonial Library edition, publisher's catalogue at end dated August 1894, original dark green cloth, hinges slightly tender, extremities bumped; Ibid The famous tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse. London, 1923, first edition, frontispiece and one illustration reproduced from drawings by Hardy, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Ibid The famous tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall. New York, 1923, number 553 of 1,000 copies, frontispiece and one illustration, original cloth-backed boards; Ibid An indiscretion in the life of an heiress. Privately printed at the Curwen Press, 1934, first edition, number 81 of 100 copies, Max Gate booklabel tipped-in before title-page, original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt, gilt edges, original black board case; Ibid An indiscretion in the life of an heiress Hardy's lost novel, now first printed in America and edited with introduction and notes by Carl J. Weber. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1935, first American edition in book form, original dark green cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Ibid An indiscretion in the life of an heiress. Edited and with an Introduction by Terry Coleman. London, 1976, proof copy, paper wrappers, slightly stained; and 2 others (12)