Ballads of Old Birmingham

by Thomas Hardy, E. M. Rudland

$1,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Illustrations by A. Rodway. 8vo. Blue buckram binding, gilt stamped cover and spine. Some rubbing to boards, offsetting to endpapers, Thomas Hardy's Max Gate bookplate. Provenance: Maggs Bros. Thomas Hardy: A Collection of Books from his Library at Max Gate, Dorchester, 1938, item 174. Item #370228 With an ALS from Rudland to Hardy laid-in, gifting him this book May I be

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.