Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The First Editions of the Writings of Thomas Hardy and Their Values: A Bibliographical Handbook for Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians and Others
Vol. II, pp. Xvi+304; consisting of Blank leaf (not reckoned in pagination), Half-title, Title page, Contents of the Second Part, pp. V - vii, Part First was published in January 1904, but the genuine first issue of the first edition is dated 1903. Copies dated 1904 have a cancel title-page. The Preface is dated September 1903.
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