Thomas Hardy Novelist or Poet

Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. With orig. glassine wrapper in near fine box. 40 pages. With facsimile of Hardy's letters. Newton's proceeds from the printing of this monograph went to erect "a suitable monument of Thomas Hardy, either on Egdon Heath or elsewhere." Newton ranked "The Return of the Native" as Hardy's finest novel. Beautifully printed in a limited edition, one of 950 copies. Pristine copy copy in blue boards and cloth with spine and front cover paper labels.