Buy this book on-line HOMER,CHRISTINE WOOD (Friend of the Hardy Family): : THOMAS HARDY AND HIS TWO WIVESUK.BEAMINSTER,DORSET.J. STEVENS COX at The Toucan Press,1964. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo wraps,1st edn.NFINE.No owner
inscrptn,no dw/dj,wraps as issued.
Bright,crisp,clean - virtually unmarked,green paper covers with a brown design of a flower-entwined trellised framework border towards edges on front cover,along with black lettering and publisher's black silhouette colophon (a perched
toucan); publisher's list/
advertisement of other Thomas Hardy-related monographs already published
or about to be published to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no foxing or spotting either.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - the only detraction/fault - being the staples which have rusted,but with very,very little discolouration
to crease fold.No foxing/spotting - glossy paper used.No dog-ear reading
creases to any pages' corners - would therefore appear unread.UK,
slim 12mo wraps,5-16pp [paginated] includes an introduction by Richard Curle,5 other original,contemporary b/w photographs (one of Bardolf Manor being built,c 1895),and 4 being portraits of the author,the subject (TH),his first wife in later
life,his second wife and the other being a contemporary painting by an unknown artist,of his first wife at an earlier age,respectively,
interspersed throughout the text.
Plus [unpaginated] contemporary b/w Thomas Hardy ('circa 1899') portrait
photographic frntis and title-page.
Very,very SCARCE,particularly in such an xceptional condition as this
item.
One of a series (No. 18.) of monographs on the Life of Thomas Hardy - all illustrated from original photographs - under the editorship of J. Stevens Cox,F.S.A.,
each monograph having an introduction by Richard Curle; and all published at The Toucan Press,
Beaminster,Dorset,England.The first monograph (No.1.) is the exception and this was published by the Dorset
Natural History and Archaeological Society,Dorchester,Dorset,1962.From the publisher's advertisement,No's 8-10,No.14 and No's16-20 inclusive are all to be published in 1964.
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