HARDY, Thomas. Time's Laughingstocks and other verses, London: Macmillan, 1909, 8°, FIRST EDITION, original green cloth gilt, uncut (upper portion of dust-jacket mounted on front pastedown). [Purdy p.138] Provenance: Siegfried Sassoon (booklabel and epigram on front free endpaper)

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HARDY, Thomas. Time's Laughingstocks and other verses, London: Macmillan, 1909, 8°, FIRST EDITION, original green cloth gilt, uncut (upper portion of dust-jacket mounted on front pastedown). [Purdy p.138] Provenance: Siegfried Sassoon (booklabel and epigram on front free endpaper)

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With a charming epigram in Sassoon's hand signed with his monogram and dated 19th December 1927 which reads: "Published; four & sixpence net, And received without much ardour. Hardy's First Editions get Hard to find; they'll soon get harder."

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