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Hardy, Thomas. Human Shows Far Phantasies : Songs, and Trifles. Macmillan and Co., New York, 1925.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Foxing and spotting to endpapers.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Shows and Trifles. Macmillan Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 279 pp, poems. Previous owner's bookplate inside fr pastedown. Occasional (sparse) pencilled checkmarks and bracket lines, page paper very slightly darkening at the edges with age. Binding tight, deckled foreedge, cover cloth rubbed of color at top & bottom corners of spine.else nicely preserved by very good glassine protector. 5.4" x 7.75" green cloth boards, gilt spine lettering, black cover lettering. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. Human shows far phantasies songs, and trifles. Macmillan, New York, 1925.
Price: US$31.25 + shipping
Description: First American edition, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 279, [1]; very good, sound copy in original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. This collection of 152 poems, 25 of which had appeared in print previously, is the last of Hardy's works published during his lifetime. Purdy pp. 234-48.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
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. Macmillan, New York, 1925.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Some rubbing and wear on the cloth, near very good lacking the dustwrapper. Ownership signature of poet Eleanor Ross Taylor.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. Human Shows, Far Phantasies: Songs and Trifles. Macmillan, New York, 1925.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing of the first American edition. Original green cloth with dark blue lettered front panel, and gilt-lettered spine, 279pp., without dust jacket. Book with light rubbing to extremities (primarily at spine ends and bottom front corner), faint toning to spine, and light toning to page margins, else fine.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. Human Shows, Far Fantasies, Songs, and Trifles. MacMillan, New York, 1925.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st American edition bound in the publisher's original green cloth covered boards, stamped and decorated in green and gilt on the cover and spine. Some shelf wear to extremities, particulalrly at the head and heel.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Octavo. x, 279pp. Green cloth stamped in dark green on front board and gilt on spine. Light foxing on endpapers, minor soiling on preliminary pages and cloth, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, half-inch tear on spine head, about very good lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
HARDY, Thomas. Human Shows Far Phantasies Songs, and Trifles. Macmillan, New York, 1925.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Slightly toned spine with light wear at the ends, and a cracked gutter, very good, lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. Human Shows, Far Phantasies: Songs and Trifles. The Macmillan Co. New York, 1925.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition ~1st Printing Hardcover a collection of poetry from the renowned author, very good in good dust jacket, in clear mylar protector; small chips/stains to jacket corners, a few bent page corners else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; first printing with no later signs
Seller: David Kaye Books & Memorabilia, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Hardy. Thomas. Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles. Macmillan, New York, 1925.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition of Hardy's poerty. The book is tight and in a very scarce DW lightly faded on the spine, head of spine has light wear, prev. owner's name written small as well as small sticker on ffep .
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas.. Human Shows Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles.. Macmillan, New York, 1925.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in Dust Jacket with three very small letters in ink on spine, few very small edge chips and tears along edges, else Very Good.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. Human Shows Far Phantasies. Macmillan, New York, 1925.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in green cloth-covered boards. Light bump to the lower rear corner, dust-darkened on the top edge of the text, previous name, and minor offsetting on the endpapers.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Thomas Hardy. Human Shows, Far Phantasies - Songs and Trifles. Macmillan, 1925.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Human Shows Far Phantasies - songs and trifles" by Thomas Hardy - Macmillan, London - 1925 first UK edition first printing - 15cmx13cm - condition: good, original green binding with gilded elements, few pencil marks on content page, overall a good first edition copy Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles is the penultimate collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1925. A miscellaneous collection, Human Shows included old, new, and updated poems. The most cheerful of Hardy's collections, Human Shows has been seen as reflecting something of an Indian summer on its author's part:[2] he himself, in his introduction to Winter Words, feared that he had been "too liberal in selecting flippant, not to say farcical, pieces into the collection".[3] A pastoral tone prevails, often dramatising characters from Hardy's fiction, and at times Hardy even seems to burlesque some of his own tragic themes - of ironic accidents and patterned fate as in the sketch "Snow in the Suburbs".[4] The collection includes more serious poems as well memories of friends and family gone, as well as of his first wife Emma.[5] "Alike and Unalike" records the beginning dissension in his marriage with his attachment to Florence Henniker;[6] and "Nobody Comes" records his lonely wait for his second wife Florence Dugdale to return after an operation in London
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
HARDY, Thomas. Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles. Macmillan and Co, New York, 1925.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in mauve decorative dust jacket; x,[2],279pp. Jacket spine quite faded, else Very Good or better. Poetry collection, first published in London the same year. PURDY, p. 248.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in green cloth, in a Fine pale dull magenta dustwrapper, front flap clipped on diagonal (but price still present), endpapers not offset. Fore-edge untrimmed. 279pp. Trade issue. Uncommon in this condition. Q07702
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
HARDY, THOMAS.. Human Shows, Far Fantasies: Songs, and Trifles. New York: Macmillan, 1925, 1925.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition; large paper; one of 100 copies; minor stain on the front paste-down; fine in a quarter-morocco (scratched, but very good) slipcase with chemise. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
HARDY, THOMAS. Human shows far phantasies songs, and trifles. Macmillan, New York, 1925.
Price: US$218.75 + shipping
Description: First American edition, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 279; dust-jacket with small crack at top of front hinge and a few minor creases, else a near fine copy.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, 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.