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HARDY, Thomas. Life\'s Little Ironies. 1894. A BRIGHT COPY OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IN RARE DUST JACKET.
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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.