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Seller: Sumner & Stillman

Title: POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
Author: Hardy, Thomas
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1902. (London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902.) Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition of Hardy's second volume of verse, which (like the first, WESSEX POEMS), consisted of only 500 copies. None of Hardy's exceedingly scarce multi-volume novels consisted of fewer copies; for example, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE and TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES each had a 1000-copy first edition. This title, published actually in November 1901, contains 99 poems, some of which deal with the Boer War; WESSEX POEMS had contained 51 poems. POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT marks the end of Hardy's association with the publishing firm of Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. (and their successors, Harper & Brothers of London, of which Clarence McIlvaine was in charge). This is an unusually fine, bright copy. In our experience, though both WESSEX POEMS and this title consisted of the same number of copies, this is a considerably scarcer book -- especially in this condition. Purdy pp 107-119.

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