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HARDY, Thomas. Human shows far phantasies. Macmillan and Co Ltd, London, 1925.
Price: US$5.78 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Sound copy; green cloth with gilt decoration on front board and gilt lettering on spine; spine rather faded; many top edges uncut; slightly dirty/dusty look to edges. Binding firm. Used - Good. Good Hardback (No dust jacket) HA
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925. Very Good condition. Square and tight. Three small inner hinge cracks have been neatly reglued. Lettering on the spine is somewhat faded but perfectly legible. Original olive cloth. The gilt medallion (with T. H. monogram) on the front cover is still bright and shiny. No owner's name or bookplate. This is a collection of 152 poems, of which only 25 were previously printed. Purdy says this was the last of Hardy's volumes to be published in his lifetime and "in subject [the poems] bear frequent evidence of Hardy's examination of old diaries and letters." Laid-in is an invoice for this copy (for $17.50) from bookseller, Philip C. Duschnes. Purdy p. 247. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. x, 279pp .
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles. Macmillan and Co. Ltd, London, 1925.
Price: US$25.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition hard cover, in very good condition, No jacket. Green cloth boards, with gilt decoration incorporating Thomas Hardy's intials to front, and gilt lettering to spine. Light shelf and handling wear includes minor blemishes to boards, fading to spine, and discolouration and foxing to the uncut page block. Foxing to free papers. Within, pages tightly bound and content clear and bright. CN
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second British printing, November 1925 (same month and year as first printing). No jacket. Green boards with gold lettering to spine and gold design to front are very good with a little pushing/bumping to corners, the odd small mark, light creasing to spine (book has been read), odd small bump/rub to edges and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/tiny splits to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Rough cut page edges, tops and bottoms. Odd page remains uncut. Neat gift inscription and date in pencil to half title page. Pages bit tanned. Minor foxing/odd small mark to page edges, tops and bottoms. Foxing to first and last few pages. Occasional small mark/minor foxing to pages. Small mark to lower corner of pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. Human Shows Far Phantasies. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1925.
Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The boards have a small patch of damage to the top left corner of the front panel and quite heavy bumping to the bottom corners. Light fraying at the top and bottom of the spine which has some fading and a few light spots. Light rubbing to the corners. Page edges browned. Three previous owners have written their names with dates and locations to the front free endpaper. Browning and spotting to the endpapers and the next two pages but the remaining pages are generally unmarked with light browning. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. Human Shows, Far Phantasies: Songs, and Trifles. Macmillan, 1925.
Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1925. First edition. x+279[1]p.+3-page publisher's list of books. Paper and page edges toned, slight foxing to endpapers and occasionally elsewhere. Firmly bound in publisher's green cloth, slight wear to corners, gilt device to upper board, gilt lettering, a little faded, to spine. Owner's address of Nantclwyd House, Ruthin, blind-stamped to front free endpaper.
Seller: Leabeck Books, Steventon, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. x + 279 + [1] pp. + [3] pp. publisher's advertisements. Bound in original green cloth, gilt with gilt block of decorative roundel enclosing author's initials on front board. Deckled edges. Extremities worn, fly leaves browned and front hinge starting to crack; otherwise a very good copy. Faint 1935 signature on front pastedown. Decorated by publisher's device on verso of half title. The penultimate, and considered to be the most cheerful of Hardy's poetry collections, these old and new verses are often pastoral in tone and recall characters from his earlier fiction. Some also remember his first and second wives, Emma and Florence. ART / LITERATURE POETRY POETRY 19TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ART / LITERATURE
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. x + 279 + [1] pp. + [3] pp. publisher's advertisements. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with blind stamped borders enclosing gilt block from frontispiece. Rough cut edges. Some wear to extremities, including spine and foxing of fore edge and on to margin edges; otherwise a very good copy. Decorated by publisher's device on verso of half title. The penultimate, and considered to be the most cheerful of Hardy's poetry collections, these old and new verses are often pastoral in tone and recall characters from his earlier fiction. Some also remember his first and second wives, Emma and Florence. ART / LITERATURE POETRY POETRY 19TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ART / LITERATURE
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
HARDY, Thomas.. Human Shows Far Phantasies. Songs and Trifles. FIRST EDITION.. , 1925.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Description: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1925. First edition. No DW. Green hardback with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Top and bottom of spine worn and sunned. Back cover contains small black mark otherwise a clean and sound copy.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st edition, 1st printing. Good Condition. Green boards with gilt emblem on front with initials T.H. Spine shows signs of use some pages still uncut. Minor staining from age to front end pages. 279 pg. We are a small indie bookstore in scenic Vermont, specializing in children's, YA, and science fiction. Please consider buying from us and supporting indie bookstores and our bookstore cat, Wesley!
Seller: Star Cat Books, Bradford, VT, U.S.A.
HARDY Thomas. Human Shows far Phantasies: Songs and Trifles. Macmillan & Co Ltd 1925, 1925.
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: no dust jacket, spine bumped, advertisement leaves, partially unopened, very good. first edition; 279 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
HARDY, Thomas. Human Shows Far Phantasies: Songs, and Trifles. Macmillan & Co, Ltd, London, 1925.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Broadhursts of Southport Ltd ABA ILAB BA, Southport, United Kingdom
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a VG hardcover copy #75 of the special edition limited to 100 copies, published Dec 1925, printed by the Ferris Printing Company, NYC. Olive cloth spine, pasted spine label, tan paper boards, untrimmed edges, previous owner's bookplate and a touch of foxing of the endpapers. No DJ. Photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925. Octavo, x, 280, 3 (catalogue) pages. Green buckram lettered and stamped in gilt; edges uncut; covers lightly bumped, sunned and rubbed; edges a little dusty; a few minor signs of use and age internally; a very good copy with the dustwrapper sunned on the spine and a little chipped and torn. The first edition of this collection of poems.
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$117.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original gray gilt designer cloth with date on title page and no additional printings indicated. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a tiny corner chip and mild rubbing to lower spine edge, and is protected by a Mylar plastic cover. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy free of foxing o soiling.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$131.94 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: green publisher's original cloth; pp. blank leaf; [i] half title; [ii] publisher's device and imprints; [iii] title page; [iv] copyright page; v-x Contents; 1-279 text; [280] printer's imprint; [281-283] ads separately paged 1-3; [279] blank; 1-3; lettering in gilt on spine; gilt is bright; Hardy's monogram design in gilt on the front cover; no foxing; spine is square; hinges tight; previous owner's book plate on front paste-down; no previous owner's signatures or inscriptions; dust jacket has Hardy's monogram in dark blue on the front cover and lettering in dark blue on the spine; 279 pages followed by 3 pages of publisher's ads; Purdy p. 234
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Price: US$153.93 + shipping
Description: A first edition copy of Thomas Hardy's penultimate poetry collection, in the original cloth binding. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt detail. Thomas Hardy's penultimate poetry collection, published only three years before his death. It has been regarded as one of Hardy's most cheerful works, and includes many personal poems reflecting on his life and loved ones. Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet who wrote within the Victorian realist genre, being inspired by Romanticism. He is best known for his novel, 'Far from the Madding Crowd'. The half title page is present. With three pages of advertisements to the rear of the novel. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with minor shelf wear. Fading to the spine. Bumping to the spine. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age-toned to the edges but otherwise very bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo size, 292 pp., in original dust jacket. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was one of Britain's most influential Victorian novelists and poets; D. H. Lawrence wrote a study of Hardy, and he was the basis for the character of Edward Driffield in W. Somerset Maugham's "Cakes and Ale". He wrote of tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances and was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In addition to being a writer of prose, he was a prolific poet; from 1898 until his death in 1928 Hardy published eight volumes of poetry, about one thousand poems were published in his lifetime (n. b., above information from Wikipedia and Poetry Foundation), with this volume being the last of Hardy's work published prior to his death. Despite being written when Hardy was in his 80s, it shows no evidence of a decline in mental facility, or a shift in attitude or feeling. The poems are as variable in theme as any of Hardy's work, dealing with love, tragedy, comedy, and death in fair proportions, and provide a wonderful insight into the mind and thoughts of this seminal author. ___DESCRIPTION: Original gilt-stamped green cloth, on the front board a small, circular floral design around Hardy's initials, contains well over 100 poems, most signatures unopened, fore- and bottom edges are uncut; octavo size (7.75" by 5.25"), pagination: [i-iv] v-x, 1-279, 1-3 [ads]. In the original paper dust jacket, plain tan printed in midnight blue, price of 7/6 on the spine, publisher's ad for other works by Hardy on the back panel, both flaps blank. ___CONDITION: A fine copy, internally bright and free of prior owner markings, text block is tight, covers are clean; the jacket with some minor chipping and a two-inch closed tear to the upper front joint; overall a fine copy, exemplary. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
HARDY, Thomas. Human Shows Far Phantasies Songs, and Trifles. Macmillan Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition, limited issue. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards with applied paper spine label. Label is stained and spine-toned, else very good. One of 100 numbered copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
HARDY, Thomas. Human Shows Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles. Macmillan Co, New York, 1925.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition and Limited Edition of 100 numbered copies, this is #29. Original boards, cloth spine with paper label. Uncommon collection of poetry by Hardy published posthumously. Very Good tight copy with only light wear, darkening to spine label and spine cloth.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.