Thomas Hardy Signed (4 results)

Half-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 1st Edition Thus 1969. Illustrated with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Limited edition of 1500 copies this being number 973. Signed by the artist. Half leather binding. Book is near fine and bright. Contents very good. Slip case is very good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18333. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. William Nicholson SIGNED (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 1st Edition Thus 1921.Includes a portrait by William Nicholson signed by him and Thomas Hardy tipped into the front. First Riccardi edition, number 705 of 1,000 copies printed on handmade paper, from total edition of 1,014 copies, here retaining the scarce dust jacket. "Hardy set great store by the volume. hoping it would bring his poetry to a wider public" (Purdy). Purdy, p. 187 Octavo. Frontispiece portrait and title vignette by William Nicholson, with tissue guard. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. Page edges age toned. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Spine age toned. Ref19122. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition 1896. Includes a signed paper slip by Thomas Hardy tipped onto the endpaper. Etching of "Christminster" by H Macbeth-Raeburn, with age toned/foxed tissue guard, and a map of Wessex. Book is very good++ and very bright. Contents good. A really nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17855. Signed by Author(s).

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Edition. New Edition 1926. Includes a signed page by Thomas Hardy. It was never used and the book that it was intended for was never published due to his death. This edition was published in limitation of 1,500 copies and containing a few pages in Chapter X which had not appeared in any previous edition, although they were in the original manuscript. Publisher's blue cloth-covered bevelled-edge boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt. Royal Octavo. 512, fold out map of Wessex. Forty-one wood engravings by Vivien Gribble. Book is very good++ and very bright.Contents good. Includes the very rare wrapper. The wrapper is very good and bright. Large chip to spine top. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. More images can be taken upon request. Ref A1234. Signed by Author(s).