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HARDY, THOMAS. The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse. 20 volumes. Photogravure frontispieces and plates, maps, lettered tissue guards. Title-pages printed in red, blue, black and gold. 8vo, contemporary 3/4 dark green morocco, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, rubbing to bottom extremities and corners. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, [c. 1912]
autograph edition, number 39 of 153 copies, signed by hardy in volume 1 beneath a printed statement: "This is the Authorized and Definitive Edition of my books" and is considered among the scarcest of all the signed limited editions by early 20th century authors. Additional signature by the publisher on the limitation.
