PROVIDENCE AND MR. HARDY

by Thomas Hardy, Lois Deacon, Terry Coleman

A$35 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

First edition

Pp. 244, frontispiece, plus 4 plates, sources, appendices, index; blue cloth, spine blocked in brown and lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; edges of leaves faintly soiled; Hutchinson, London, 1966. First edition. *The story of Hardy's relationship with Tryphena Sparks, a young relative of his probably a cousin with whom the authors suggest he had a son. Item #116531

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