Lot of Thomas Hardy paper goods and ephemera including magazines, catalog, poems, Tess of the d'Urbervilles programme.
Thomas Hardy (England, 1840-1928).
2 copies The Oxen, in paper folios, marked Privately Printed. Wear, creasing and tears to folios and sheets.
Programme for the first performance of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Hardy Players, Corn Exchange, Dorchester, November, 1924. Some wear and staining to covers.
Yuletide in a Younger World. First edition, Number 1 of the Ariel Poems, Faber & Gwyer Limited, London. Circa 1927.
An Impromptu to the Editor: The Cornhill Magazine. No. 163, no. 601. January 1910. Smith, Elder, Co., London. In later SJK (Stanley J. Keyes) slipcase. Wear and losses to spine, creases and tears to covers, wear and tears to slipcase, bottom of slipcase torn and open.
The Profitable Reading of Fiction: The Forum magazine, no. 1. March, 1888. The Forum Publishing Co., New York. Text detached from wrappers, covers torn and discolored, water damage and discoloration along bottom of covers and pages, notations in pencil on front cover.
Winter Words: The Book League Monthly. Volume 1, number 2. December, 1928. Text detached from wrappers, tear to front cover, spine torn and partially missing, tears and creases to covers.
Maggs Bros. Ltd. catalog: Thomas Hardy: A Collection of Books From His Library at Max Gate, Dorchester. Including presentation copies to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hardy. Also A Selection of Hardy First Editions, Original MSS., and Autograph Letters. No. 664, 1938. Front cover partially missing, corners creased and torn, tears at spine, holes in title page.
Provenance: The Cornhill Magazine, Sotheby Parke Bernet, sale 3605, lot 609, 2/28 - 2/29, 1974; all private collection, New York City; thence by descent
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