Beschreibung:

Collection of 12 volumes of Poetry by Hardy.
Wessex Poems and Other Verses . Toronto: 1899. First Canadian edition, frontispiece and text illustrations by the author, original green pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g. Condition : light dampstaining to corners, upper hinge splitting, binding slightly soiled; [With:] Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses . 1909. Original green cloth gilt, orange dust-jacket lettered in black, [Purdy, pp.138-150]. Condition : browning to endpapers; spine faded, jacket worn and chipped with tape repair to spine. first edition; [With:] Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces. 1914. Original green cloth gilt, [Purdy, pp.160-172]. Condition: endpapers browned, extremities bumped, upper hinge splitting. first edition; [With:] Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses . 1915. Original green cloth gilt, [Purdy, p.150] third impression ("second edition"); [With:] Selected Poems . 1916. Title vignette of Thornycroft's bust of Hardy. Original blue cloth, Golden Treasury Series monogram medallion in gilt on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance : John Quinn (bookplate) [Purdy, pp.178-188] first edition; [With:] Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses . 1917. Original green cloth gilt, with scarce yellow dust-jacket lettered in red, [Purdy, pp.193-208], Condition : jacket slightly dust-stained with nicks and fraying at edges. first edition; [With:] Collected Poems . 1919. Volume I of 'The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy', photogravure frontispiece portrait, errata slip inserted before B1, original green cloth, [Purdy, p.287]. Condition : cuttings mounted on front and rear endpapers, extremities rubbed. first edition; [With:] Late Lyrics and Earlier, with many other verses . 1922. Original green cloth gilt, unopened, dust-jacket, [Purdy, pp.214-227]. Condition : light browning, jacket browned with some chips and tears. first edition; [With:] Human Shows, Far Phantasies. Songs, and Trifles . 1925. Original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket, [Purdy, pp.234-248]. Condition : jacket slightly frayed at head and foot of spine. first edition; [With:] Human Shows, Far Phantasies. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. Original bright green cloth, dust-jacket, [Purdy, p.248]. Condition: a few chips to jacket. first American edition; [With:] Chosen Poems. 1929. Original red cloth, lettered in black on upper cover "Specimen Not For Sale", [Purdy, pp.187-8] school edition (revised and enlarged edition of Selected Poems); [With:] Winter Words, in Various Moods and Metres . 1928. Review slip loosely inserted, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket, [Purdy, pp.252-262]. Condition : edges spotted. first edition; [With:] Another copy in dust-jacket. All London: Macmillan and Co. (unless otherwise noted), 8vo. Sold as a group, not subject to return.