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1925 Human Shows, Far Phantasies; Songs, and Trifles
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding
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'.
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 1926, to the front endpaper, reading 'To Clem with best wishes for Xmas'.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip tail, with tide marks to boards, most concentrated to fore edges. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Light tide marks to fore edges of page 251 to the end of the work, with pages otherwise clean and bright.
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