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Lot Description

HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). A group of 13 FIRST EDITIONS, including:

The Hand of Ethelberta. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1877. FIRST SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. Purdy, p. 23. -- Far From the Madding Crowd. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1877. FIRST SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. Purdy, p. 20. -- Under the Greenwood Tree. London: Chatto & Windus, 1878. FIRST SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. Purdy, p. 8. -- The Woodlanders. London: MacMillan & Co. Limited, 1887. FIRST SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. Purdy, p. 57. -- Wessex Tales. London: MacMillan & Co., 1887. FIRST SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. Purdy, pp. 58-60. -- Wessex Tales. London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. -- Three Notable Stories. New York: Spencer Blackett, 1890. -- A Group of Noble Dames. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvane, & Co., 1891. FIRST EDITION. Purdy, pp. 61-67. -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. FIRST COMPLETE AMERICAN EDITION. Purdy, p. 76. -- In Scarlet and Grey. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1896. -- Poems of the Past Present. New York: Macmillan, 1901.--- The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall. New York: Macmillan, 1923. -- Winter Words. New York: Macmillan, 1928. -- An Indescretion in the Life of an Heiress. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1935.

Together, 13 works in 13 volumes, all in original cloth, condition generally fine.

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