1925 Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of Thomas Hardy's penultimate poetry collection, widely considered to be his most cheerful collection, with Hardy himself noting his fears that he had been 'too liberal in selecting flippant, not to say farcical, pieces into the collection'.

In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped.

More sombre poems are also featured, with 'Nobody Comes' recording his lonely wait for his second wife Florence Dugdale to return after an operation in London.

With three pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear, and an inscription, dated 1928, to the front endpaper, reading 'F. J. E. from C. E. K for Old Times' sake'.