Shelfmark
Kx.4.53
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy:] Kx.4.52
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy:] Kx.3.01
Author
Title
Human shows, far phantasies : songs, and trifles / by Thomas Hardy.
Edition
1st ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Macmillan and Co., ..., 1925.
Physical description
279, 3 p. ; 20 cm.
Note
Olive-green cloth ; front blocked in gold with TH monogram medallion ; back plain ; gold-lettered on spine.
Note
See Purdy, p. 234.
Provenance
Siegfried Sassoon's copy. Signed and inscribed in ms. by Hardy on front endpaper: "For Siegfried Sassoon. Thomas Hardy. December 1925".
Provenance
Bookplate of Nicholas Kessler on inside of box.
Provenance
Bookplate of Simon Nowell-Smith on inside of box.
Provenance
Book label of Judith Adams Nowell-Smith on inside of box.
Copy-specific note
Cutting from the Sunday Times, December [1925?], on rear pastedown. The cutting is a review by Edmund Gosse of this book. Possibly inserted by Sassoon.
Copy-specific note
In green cloth fall-down-back box.
Genre/Form
Poems.
Added entry--name
Kessler, Nicholas E., 1937 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886 - 1967 former owner.
Added entry--name
Macmillan & Co. Ltd. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35767