signed first edition
1903 · London
by Arthur Symons
London: Duckworth and Co, 1903. A wonderful Association copy, INSCRIBED BY ARTHUR SYMONS TO THOMAS HARDY on the front free endpaper. Also includes Hardy's personal bookplate from Max Gate on the front pastedown. A solid copy to boot of the 1903 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in its green cloth, with clean paper title label at the spine. Light offsetting to the preliminaries, light, inoffensive glue remains at the lower front pastedown. Octavo, dedicated to Maurice Maeterlinck, striking frontispiece portrait of Eleonora Duse.
(Inventory #: 14811)