Description
The first issue of How I Built Myself a House by Thomas Hardy, as originally published in issue 64 of the Chamber’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art in 1865.
Octavo, 161-176pp. Story on pages 161-164. Original pamphlet, bound by string along the spine. Worn along binding, still sound. Small remnants of previous binding along edges. A few points of foxing along edges, very good condition.
(Purdy 293-294)
Housed in a full blue cloth chemise, title in gilt on blue morocco spine.
This publication marks Thomas Hardy’s second appearance in print.Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, was originally known as the Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal. This weekly publication began on February 4, 1832, and ceased publication over 100 years later, in 1956.
