Dynasts Part First by Hardy Thomas (14 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings, 228 + v pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First US Edition. 228pp.+ Contents list and works list. Green cloth hardcoer with gilt spine title and decoration, minor chipping at board corners and head and foot of spine cloth, foxed endpapers cracked at hinge with flyleaves present. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall A.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. WESSEX EDITION VERSE VOL II. THE DYNASTS PARTS 1 AND 2: HEAVY DAMP RELATED DISCOLOURING TO BOARDS AND SPINE, CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, RED DYE FROM CLOTH IS ON BORNERS OF ENDPAPERS, NAME ON FFEP, OTHER LIGHT BROWN STAINING ON EPS, BOARDS SLIGHTLY BOWED, FURTHER DAMP RELATED STAINING ON PAGES AT ENDS, TANNED ON SIDES, OTHERWISE GOOD. 700 GRAMS. VOL III , THE DYNASTS PART THREE. 1913: BOARDS SLIGHTLY BOWED, DAMP RELATED DISCOLOURING TO CLOTH, CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, RED DYE STAINS ON BORDERS OF BOTH EPS AS WELL AS LIGHT BROWN STAINING, NAME TOP OF FFEP, ALSO MARK OF SOME KING NEAR BOTTOM OF FFEP, FURTHER STAINING ON PAGES AT ENDS, SIDES TANNED, SIDES UN-TRIMMED, PAGES FROM 291 TO 302 DAMAGED AT THE BOTTOM WITH HEAVY CREASING AND LONG TEARING ON PAGES 291 TO 300, TOP CORNERS CREASED ON PAGES 291 TO 294, OTHERWISE GOOD. 700 GRAMS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. Two books of which Parts First and Second form the first volume and Part Third plus "Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses" the second volume. Volume one; xvi: 403pp with an illustration to frontispiece protected by a tissue-guard and a two-page map following last page. Volume two; xii: 425pp with an illustration to frontispiece protected by a tissue-guard and a map following last page. "The Dynasts" is an epic drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts, and one hundred and thirty scenes. These two volumes make up volumes II and III of the Wessex edition of Thomas Hardy's Verse, and are accompanied by prefaces and notes. Red boards have gilt titles and decorations to spine, and are darkened in some areas. Pages are rough-cut. Very slight signs of foxing to front and rear free endpapers, and a shadow is evident on the half-title pages. A previous owner's card (Henry le Vay Lawrence) is appended to the inside of the front board of each volume. A very good set.

First Edition. THE DYNASTS A DRAMA OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS, IN THREE PARTS, NINETEEIN ACTS & ONE HUNDRED THIRTY SCENES ( PART FIRST), , Macmillan, 1904, first American edition, f.e.p. neatly excised, else a tight vg copy.

Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Green cloth with gold lettering to spine and gold motif with the initials TH in the centre on front cover. In very good, clean, tight condition BUT end papers a bit browned / spotted. Text edges ar roughcut and browned / spotted. Covers a little rubbed, corners and spine ends a bit bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Second issue, with 1904 on the title page. "Set up, electrotyped, and published January, 1904" on the copyright page. A fine copy in a square, tight binding, with a bit of softening to the spine ends. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. First Edition. Internally very good with a little browning/spotting to the endpapers, binding firm, cover sound with some wear/fading to the spine. See pics Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustwrapper. Wessex Edition. First Reprint. Vol. I has frontispece illustration of the Ridgeway road, and Vol.II has Wnyard's Gap, both with tissue guards. Clean boards and unmarked contents, with firm bindings.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

First Edition. Good copy in original gilt-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Provenance; from the library of the Ian McCann with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; part I (only): 228 pages. Subjects; Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). 20th century drama. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy in original gilt-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Provenance; from the library of the Ian McCann with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; part I (only): 228 pages. Subjects; Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). 20th century drama. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Second issue, with [a]3 a cancel. Original green cloth, stamped in gilt; plain endpapers; xxii,228,v,[3]pp; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear. Straight, lightly rubbed, endpapers foxed, occasional scattered foxing: Very Good. The first issue "was ready for publication in December 1903, but the American printers had not finished their edition. The book was therefore kept back because of copyright law, the title-page cancelled, and a new one altering the date to 1904 substituted. In this form it was finally published at 4s. 6d. in an edition of 1,000 copies, 13 January 1904. Copies with the title-page uncancelled and date d1903 are less rare than has been assumed, but there is no evidence the book was ever sold in this state." PURDY p.120-3.

"Wessex Edition". Twenty volumes. 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt spines, early ticket of a Liverpool bookseller (Martin A. McGoff) to the front pastedowns along with a bookplate of a Godfrey W. Mathews, Thomas Hardy's original handwritten signature on a slip of paper taped to the front free endpaper of volume I. 20 photogravure frontispieces plus a double page map of Wessex repeated to the rear of each volume. Sunning to the spines, occasional marking to the cloth, some foxing at intervals. Purdy, pp. 282-86: "The Wessex Edition is in every sense the definitive edition of Hardy's work and the last authority in questions of text". Hardy himself corrected, edited and revised the texts throughout, the final time he did so. A further four volumes of verse were published irregularly between 1919 and 1931, the final one posthumously.