New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899 Book. Illus. by Thomas Hardy. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Small Octavo. viii + 210 pp + (2), b&w frontispiece, verso @1898, By the Same Author (list), preface (September, 1898), contents (approx 51 poems), ep (list of H&B works by Thackeray & George DuMaurier). Binding firm, paper Very Good, gilt textblock top edge Good+, pages clean and unmarked, cover cloth with light threadwear at the bottom & top spine tips, a cluster of dark dots along upper fr hinge, else Very Good gilt spine and fr cover with pictorial design laid in 5.8" x 8,25" green cloth boards - in clear glassine wrapper.

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 005323
Title: Wessex Poems and Other Verses
Author: Thomas Hardy
Illustrator: Thomas Hardy
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Glassine Wrapper
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Place of Publication: New York and London
Date Published: 1899
Keywords: Turn of the 19th to 20th century British poet English poetry
Size: Small Octavo

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