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HARDY, THOMAS. 1840-1928.
The Dynasts. London: MacMillan & Co, Limited, 1903-1908.

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
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HARDY, THOMAS. 1840-1928.

The Dynasts. London: MacMillan & Co, Limited, 1903-1908.
3 volumes. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, publisher's decorated "TH" monogram to upper covers, spines lettered in gilt, lacking dust-jackets, spines very lightly faded.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of volume one, the usual second state of volume two (with cancel title, no known copy of the first state in an English binding), embossed "PRESENTATION COPY" stamps to all three title pages, and REVIEW SLIP laid in to volume one. According to George Orwell, writing in the midst of another war in 1942, Hardy "set free his genius" to write a "grandiose and rather evil vision of armies marching and counter-marching through the mists, and men dying by hundreds of thousands in the Russian snows, and all for absolutely nothing" (Tribune, September 18, 1942). Purdy, pp 119-135.

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