first edition
1899
by Hardy, Thomas
1899. [illustrated by himself] With 30 Illustrations by the Author. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Original light green cloth pictorially decorated in orange, yellow-green, light blue and white.
First American Edition of Hardy's first volume of verse, published about six weeks after the London one (which was dated 1898). This volume "marks the final emergence of Hardy's primary interest, verse. The thirty years that remained to him were devoted to the composition of poetry..." [Purdy]. One of the poems is a sonnet titled "Hap" -- for happenstance. Actually written in 1866, Hardy laments the fact that lives are ruled by Chance, (truncated)
First American Edition of Hardy's first volume of verse, published about six weeks after the London one (which was dated 1898). This volume "marks the final emergence of Hardy's primary interest, verse. The thirty years that remained to him were devoted to the composition of poetry..." [Purdy]. One of the poems is a sonnet titled "Hap" -- for happenstance. Actually written in 1866, Hardy laments the fact that lives are ruled by Chance, (truncated)