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Lot 181
Sale 1336 - Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Worlds of Tomorrow, and Americana
Jun 7, 2024
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$600 -
800
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$826
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Lot Description
HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Life's Little Ironies. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1894.
8vo. 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Original light green cloth gilt; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some chipping, front flap detached and laid in).
A BRIGHT COPY OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IN THE RARE AND EARLY DUST JACKET. This jacket is listed in Tanselle's, Book Jackets: Their History, Forms and Use, #94.38 Harper, p.170. Not in Godburn's Nineteenth-Century Dust Jackets. Purdy, pp.81-85.