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)

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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)