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Hardy, Thomas.. WINTER WORDS: In Various Moods and Metres.. Macmillan, London, 1928.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, green cloth covers with gilt esgin on front cover and gilt spine titles. xi [1] 202 pages. Some offset browning to endpapers; former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Book slightly cocked. Dust jacket chipped at edges, missing bottom two iches of spine, split from rear panel--protected now in mylar. 112706A
Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.
Thomas Hardy. Winter Words In Various Moods And Metres. Macmillan and Co Ltd, London, 1928.
Price: US$19.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Previous owner's writing on fep.
Seller: siop lyfrau'r hen bost, Blaenau Ffestiniog, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. Winter Words In Various Moods and Meters. MacMillan & Co., Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth binding with gilt flower & initial design on front cover. Gilt title, author and publisher on spine. 202pp. Content clean, bright and sound.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
. Winter words, in various moods and metres / by Thomas Hardy. London : Macmillan, 1928.
Price: US$20.64 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex library, 1928 hc, no dj, no other marks noted in text, title page torn, cover worn,AND AS ALWAYS SHIPPED IN 24 HOURS; and emailed to you a USPS tracking number on all orders; all books are sanitized and cleaned for your protection before mailing. PLEASE NOTE OVER SEAS BUYERS if the book extra large or heavy there will be additional postage due to the new US Postage rates
Seller: books4u31, asheville, NC, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas:. Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres. London Macmillan & Co, 1928.
Price: US$25.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover book, first edition, green cloth with gilt titles. 202 pages- no dustjacket. Poetry, and verses from Thomas Hardy. A Very Good book . Light foxing to early pages , white stain to bottom rear corner of cover. Pictures available.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas.. WINTER WORDS. In Various Moods And Metres.. Macmillan and Co.:, London, 1928.
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Description: 202 pages. The Introductory Note by the author "This being probably my last appearance of the literary stage, I would say, more seriously, that though, alas, it would be idle to pretend that the publication of these poems can have much interest for me, the track having been adventured so many times before today, the pieces themselves have been prepared with reasonable care, if not quite with the zest of a young man new to print." FINE- HARDCOVER, many of the top page edges are still uncut, previous owner's bookplate is present, GOOD DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
Hardy Thomas. Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres. MacMillan, London, 1928.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Green cloth, foxing to endpapers; largely uncut. Jacket chipped at edges with loss along bottom edge and spine end but largely intact. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 042900.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. Winter Words: In Various Moods and Metres. Macmillan and Co. Ltd, London, 1928.
Price: US$42.82 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover The green boards have a gilt cartouche with TH in the center; the title is in gilt on the spine. The corners are unbumped; all three edges are rough cut and seem to have some foxing, which does not bleed into the interior. The endpapers are aged and have what appears to be a stain from the dust jacket, otherwise clean. The interior is clean and lightly aged. The dust jacket was a gray/green color, but has been sun struck. There is a blue cartouche on the cover(same as the front board) with the title in blue on the spine, the back cover has other works by Hardy; there are a couple of chip and a few cut, but very minor, corners are uncut. 202pp
Seller: Weatherby Books, West Pawlet, VT, U.S.A.
HARDY, Thomas. Winter Words In Various Moods and Metres. Macmillan and Co, London, 1928.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Octavo, original green cloth over boards, gilt stamped decoration on front cover, gilt stamped text on spine. English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's final collection of poems, 202 pages, largely unopened. Near fine, light shelf wear, fading to spine.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
HARDY THOMAS. WINTER WORDS. LONDON MACMILLAN, 1928.
Price: US$48.41 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL GREEN BOARDS, GILT. VERY GOOD.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres. Macmillan and Co. Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$50.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good / Fine copy of the First Edition, First Issue, in a Very Good Dust Jacket, not price clipped. A Clean and bright, nice copy. Purdy pp. 252
Seller: Fountain Books (Steve Moody), Eastleigh, United Kingdom
HARDY, Thomas.:. Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres.. London: Macmillan, 1928.
Price: US$63.70 + shipping
Description: 1st. Edn. pp. xi, 202. From the library of the critic, Alan Dent. His neat gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Small cancel stamp from The Alan Dent Collection, Shakespeare Centre Library and circular green stamp of Alan Dent Bequest, Carrick Academy Library to the front pastedown. This apart a very good plus copy in the original pale green cloth. Gilt lettered spine with Hardy's monogram to front board. In a very good unclipped wrapper.
Seller: Richard Roberts Bookseller., KILMARNOCK, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. Winter Words, in Various Moods and Metres. MacMillan London 1928, 1928.
Price: US$66.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback with dust jacket Near Fine octavo 202pp., Some small stamps, several pages carelessly opened & minor chipping to flimsy dust jacket. Many pages uncut. But a VG copy of the first edition in its dust jacket
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Hardy, Thomas. Winter Words in various moods and metres. Macmillan and Co, London, 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [xi], [i], 201 pp., [1]; uncut pages. 8vo. First edition of what Hardy described in the introductory note as, "being probably my last appearance on the literary stage." He was right: the book was completed just before and published just after Hardy's death in January 1928. Purdy pp 252-262 Original green cloth boards with gilt insignia on front, gilt titles on spine, some toning along spine and slight cocking, some toning on endpapers, else a near fine copy [xi], [i], 201 pp., [1]; uncut pages. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Thomas Hardy. WINTER WORDS In Various Moods and Metres. MacMillan & Company , Ltd, London, 1928.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. A few chips to jacket edges. Strip of toning to end papers. Minor wear to jacket at spine. Text is unmarked. A collection of poems Hardy was assembling at the time of his death. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. WINTER WORDS. Macmillan, 1928.
Price: US$81.20 + shipping
Description: WINTER WORDS, London, Macmillan, 1928, first edition, some age toning to the page edges, a bit of off-setting to the end-papers (from dust-wrapper flaps no doubt), else just about fine in vg dust-wrapper with some light chipping to the head of the somewhat tanned dust-wrapper spine. The authors last book.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Thomas Hardy. Winter Words, in Various Moods and Metres. London : Macmillan January 1928, 1928.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: MacMillan, London, 1928. First edition. Very Good in a nice original dustjacket. Corners and spine ends very lightly rubbed, offsetting to the prelims, p.o. signature on the front free endpaper, gilt decoratin and title complete and bright. The jacket is lightly rubbed at the corners and spine ends, two obtrusive stains on the spine not affecting the title. An otherwise quite well preserved jacket.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
HARDY, Thomas. Winter Words.. London: Macmillan:, First edition,, 1928.
Price: US$101.92 + shipping
Description: 8vo., xii, 202pp., orig. cloth gilt. A near fine copy in generally VG+ clean dustwrapper which has one closed tear. (Purdy, pages 252-262). A collection of 105 poems, which Hardy had been assembling at the time of his death in January 1928.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
Hardy , Thomas.. Winter Words.. Macmillan & Co. Limited London , 1928., 1928.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. A very good bright book in a very good dust jacket with no chips but a bit of staining to the rear of the jacket. Still a nice jacket as well as book.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
HARDY, Thomas. WINTER WORDS IN VARIOUS MOODS AND METRES. Macmillan and Co, London, 1928.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. xi, 202 pp. Armorial bookplate of Ian Maxwell Campbell on verso of front endpaper. Contemporary polished calf, boards framed by a thin triple-rule, spine richly gilt with ornaments, rules and leather labels between raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, by Riviere for Sothern & Co. Scattered light foxing, but very good in an attractive contemporary binding.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Thomas Hardy. Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$131.25 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First trade edition, following a limited edition of 500. In original dust jacket in protective sheet with only '7/6 net' printed inside interior flaps. Jacket is in exceoptional condition with two light spots on spine. Bound in green grain cloth over boards with gilded symbol on front and gilded lettering on spine; a very slight lean and pinprick size scuff on one corner, otherwise very fine. All edges untrimmed, including all top edges uncut with nearly all pages never opened. Toning between pages vi-vii, some minor inclusions in paper. Overall, a very fine copy of this posthumously published book of poetry. Pages:(12) 202 (2) Dimensions:7¾ x 5¼ x 1.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$134.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: green publisher's original cloth; lettering in gilt on the spine; gilt is bright; Hardy's monogram design in gilt on the front cover; pp. [i] half title; [ii] publisher's device and imprints; [iii] title page; [iv] copyright notice; v-vi Introductory Notes; vii-xi Contents; xii blank; 1-202 text; [203] printer's imprint; [204] blank; no foxing; light offsetting to small portion of the ffep and rear fep from publisher's binding material; almost no shelf wear; spine is square; hinges are tight; previous owner's book plate on front paste-down; no previous owner's inscriptions or other internal markings; dust jacket has Hardy's monogram in dark blue on the front panel; lettering in dark blue on the spine; two small closed tears at d. j. folds; A Purdy p.252.
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Hardy, Thomas. Winter Words in Various Moods and Meters. Macmillan, London, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Green cloth, gilt, fine in lightly used dust jacket.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Thomas Hardy. Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres. Macmillan, London, 1928.
Price: US$184.74 + shipping
Description: The first edition of Thomas Hardy's posthumously published final volume of poetry, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work from the major literary figure, published in the year of his death.In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped.A short note printed above the introduction, states 'this volume, though prepared for the press, would have undergone further revisions, had the author lived to issue it', with Hardy acknowledging his own mortality with this work 'being probably my last appearance on the literary stage'.The final poem in the collection is titled 'He Resolves to Say No More'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with bumping to spine head and tail and a touch of fading to back strip. Light spotting to fore edge of text block. Discolouration to dust wrapper back strip, with small losses to back strip head and tail. Significant closed tear over front joint, with tape reinforcements to reverse of dust wrapper. Light edgewear to dust wrapper head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres. MacMillan and Co., Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$215.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard cover, 8 vo., in publisher's green cloth with gilt "TH "monogram design to center front, and titles in gilt to spine, with unclipped dust jacket in tan with black print, 202 pp. In mylar protector. Printed R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. CONDITION: Very Good : Ffep has ghost from the original application of binding glue near the gutter. Very slight wear to head, tail of spine. Interior is clean, tight and gently age toned. Many pages unopened. D/J: Good, with sunning to spine, a loss at head of spine, split at front joint, and some damage to rear at top. This was the valedictory volume of poetry written by English poet Hardy, who died the same year.
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
HARDY, THOMAS. Winter words in various moods and meters. Macmillan & Co, London, 1928.
Price: US$218.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 202, [1]; a fine copy in a jacket that shows darkening on the spine and a small chip at the top. Hardy's last book, a collection of 105 poems, published posthumously. Purdy 252-62.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
HARDY, Thomas.. Winter Words In Various Moods and Metres.. Macmillan, London, 1928.
Price: US$224.59 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., orig. green cloth, (xii), (200)pp. Fine in d/w with chipping to the spine ends and a tear in the front panel o/w very good.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
HARDY, Thomas.. Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres.. Macmillan, London., 1928.
Price: US$286.66 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp xii, 202. The author's last collection of poems, posthumously published.Free endpapers partially tanned. Near fine in very good indeed, slightly creased dustwrapper with one nick.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardy, Thomas. WINTER WORDS. In Various Moods and Metres. London: Macmillan, 1928. First Edition. A Fine unopened copy (tiny bit of foxing to fore-edge) in a Fine original dust jacket. With "Rabbit" bookplate of Richard Adams, author of the animal fantasy classic WATERSHIP DOWN, who shared Hardy's deep connection to nature and its creatures. An appealing association copy.
Seller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$388.50 + shipping
Description: 12mo. pp. xi, 202, [1]. A near fine untrimmed copy in gilt-stamped green cloth (free-endpapers partly darkened). near fine dw. (tiny nick in dw. spine). First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada