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Auction archive: Lot number 164

HARDY, THOMAS. The Well-Beloved, 1903, blue cloth, front endpaper beginning to crack at inner hinge, blue half morocco slipcase , Volume XVII in Macmillan's edition of the Wessex Novels, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front flyleaf: "T...

Auction 07.10.1994
7 Oct 1994
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$920
Auction archive: Lot number 164

HARDY, THOMAS. The Well-Beloved, 1903, blue cloth, front endpaper beginning to crack at inner hinge, blue half morocco slipcase , Volume XVII in Macmillan's edition of the Wessex Novels, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front flyleaf: "T...

Auction 07.10.1994
7 Oct 1994
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$920
Beschreibung:

HARDY, THOMAS. The Well-Beloved, 1903, blue cloth, front endpaper beginning to crack at inner hinge, blue half morocco slipcase , Volume XVII in Macmillan's edition of the Wessex Novels, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front flyleaf: "To Alfred East from Thomas Hardy June: 1907"; Desperate Remedies, [1896], green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, top of spine chipped, inner hinges cracked , Volume XII in the Osgood, McIlvaine edition of the Wessex Novels, with a new Preface by Hardy, SIGNED AND DATED BY HARDY ("December: 1913") on the half-title, Carroll A. Wilson bookplate; The Oxen, Hove, 1915, gray wrappers, stitched as issued , a little faded, FIRST EDITION, FROM HARDY'S LIBRARY with the Max Gate bookplate (one of 50 copies sent to Hardy by the printer -- see Purdy, p. 175); London, except as noted, together 3 vols., 8vo, original bindings. (3)

Auction archive: Lot number 164
Auction:
Datum:
7 Oct 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

HARDY, THOMAS. The Well-Beloved, 1903, blue cloth, front endpaper beginning to crack at inner hinge, blue half morocco slipcase , Volume XVII in Macmillan's edition of the Wessex Novels, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front flyleaf: "To Alfred East from Thomas Hardy June: 1907"; Desperate Remedies, [1896], green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, top of spine chipped, inner hinges cracked , Volume XII in the Osgood, McIlvaine edition of the Wessex Novels, with a new Preface by Hardy, SIGNED AND DATED BY HARDY ("December: 1913") on the half-title, Carroll A. Wilson bookplate; The Oxen, Hove, 1915, gray wrappers, stitched as issued , a little faded, FIRST EDITION, FROM HARDY'S LIBRARY with the Max Gate bookplate (one of 50 copies sent to Hardy by the printer -- see Purdy, p. 175); London, except as noted, together 3 vols., 8vo, original bindings. (3)

Auction archive: Lot number 164
Auction:
Datum:
7 Oct 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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