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Hardy (Thomas). The Hand of Ethelberta, a comedy in chapters, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1876, half-titles, frontispieces, 9 illustrations, ex-library with Garrison Library Malta stamps to preliminaries (including titles), spotting, modern blue half calf gilt, spines a little faded, rubbed, 8vo, together with: A Group of Noble Dames, 1st edition, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co, 1891, half-title, original brown cloth and backstrip bound-in at rear, top edge gilt, early 20th-century terracotta full morocco gilt by Birdsall, spine a little faded, rubbed, 8vo, plus Wessex Poems and other Verses, 1st edition, London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898, black and white illustrations, brown ink ownership inscription 'Geo. Latchmore' to front free endpaper, rear hinge cracked, original green cloth gilt, a few light marks, 8vo, with 15 volumes related to Thomas Hardy including The Return of the Native (signed by Clare Leighton 1929), Human Shows Far Fantasies (2 copies, 1925 in dust jackets) and Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922, in dust jacket) (Quantity: 19)