Our Exploits at West Poley
HARDY, Thomas
Illustrated by John Lawrence. With an Introduction by R.L.Purdy.
FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Oxford University Press Oxford, [1978]
Stock code: 19882
Price: £24.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrated title-spread and numerous full-page illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, beige endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Hardy's only story for younger readers was first serialised in 'The Household' magazine. It was first published in book form in separate limited and trade editions (illustrated by Lynton Lamb) in 1952. This is the only other edition to date. 'That so considerable a piece of prose could have lain in MS at a publisher's for nearly a decade and then, though printed when Hardy's reputation was at a peak in the year after 'Tess', have gone unnoticed and disappeared from memory are facts as surprising as any in Hardy's bibliography' (Purdy: A Bibliography of Thomas Hardy). Purdy, p.301-3.