1928 Winter Words In Various Moods and Metres

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition.

In the original unclipped dust wrapper.

A posthumously published anthology of poetry from English novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy.

A short note printed above the introduction states 'this volume, though prepared for the press, would have undergone further revisions, had the author lived to issue it', with Hardy acknowledging his own mortality in the preface, with this work 'being probably my last appearance on the literary stage'.

A fitting ending, with the final poem included in the collection being 'He Resolved to Say No More'.

With a typed copy of an article from Vol. XIX of The Nation, the long-running American progressive political magazine. This article was issued in the December 1874 volume, and surrounds another work of Hardy's, his novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd'.