[HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928)]. A group of 11 Hardy ASSOCIATION COPIES, including:

HARDY, Florence Emily. The Early Life of Thomas Hardy. London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd., 1928. Original cloth. Provenance: Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. (1910-2001), former director of the Pierpont Morgan Library and owner of the largest personal collection of Hardy works (his bookplate as designed by Rockwell Kent). -- The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928. London: Macmillan and Co., 1930. FIRST EDITION. In the scarce dust jacket. Provenance: Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. (his bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent). [With:] The Later Years of Thomas Hardy. Provenance: Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. (his bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent). -- HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. London: Osgood, & Co., 1892. Original cloth. Provenance: Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet (1853-1923), British surgeon credited with saving the life of King Edward VII in 1902, and was also a close friend to Thomas Hardy (his signature). -- POPE, Alfred. The Old Stone Crosses of Dorset. London: The Chiswick Press, 1906. Original cloth. INSCRIBED BY POPE, who was a friend of Hardy's, former mayor of Dorchester, and a famous brewer. -- UDAL, John Symonds. Dorsetshire Folk-Lore. Hertford: Stephen Austin & Sons, Ltd., 1922. Original linen-backed boards. Provenance: Richard L. Purdy (1904-1990), Thomas Hardy bibliographer and scholar whose collection now resides at Yale University (his bookplate). -- WEBER, Carl J. Hardy in America. Waterville, ME: Colby College Press, 1946. Original cloth; dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WEBER, curator of Rare Books at Colby College and renowned Thomas Hardy scholar. -- YOUNG, Ernest W. Dorchester: Its Ancient and Modern History... London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1886. Contemporary half calf. Provenance: John Symonds Udal (1848-1925), British author and judge who served as Attorney-General of Fiji from 1889-1899 and as Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands from 1900-1911 (his bookplate). -- PURDY. Thomas Hardy. Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of First editions... New Haven, 1928. INSCRIBED BY PURDY to Gilbert Maxwell. With a TLS from Purdy to "Dear old Hurt Feelings", laid in. -- WILSON, Carroll. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Grolier Club Centenary Exhibition. Waterville: Colby College, 1940. INSCRIBED BY WILSON. -- LEA, Hermann. Thomas Hardy's Wessex. London: Macmillan, 1925. Provenance: Dorothy Allhusen (bookplate).

Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, all 8vo, condition generally fine.