HARDY, Florence Emily. The Early Life of Thomas Hardy. 1840-1891. London: Macmillan, 1928. 8° (220 x 145mm). Frontispiece, 12 plates and one illustration. Original green cloth, brown dust-jacket printed in blue (wear at top edge of jacket). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed: 'Dr. Vandermin with kindest regards from Florence Hardy. Nov. 1928'. Purdy, pp.262-67 ('the writing is throughout Hardy's own'). -- The Later Years of Thomas Hardy. 1892-1928. London: Macmillan, 1928. 8° (220 x 145mm). Frontispiece and 11 plates. Original green cloth, original brown dust-jacket printed in blue (wear at top edge of jacket). FIRST EDITION. Purdy, pp.268-73. With: 5 pamphlets relating to Thomas Hardy, comprising the order of service for his funeral at Westminster Abbey; the order of service for the centenary of his birth at St. Michael's Stinsford; Campagnac's 18 January 1928 commemorative address at the University of Liverpool; the catalogue of the memorial exhibition at Yale University; and the Stevens-Cox catalogue of Hardy material from the Evans and Tilley collection. (7)