Hardy (Thomas) Three Notable Stories. Love and Peril; To be, or not to be; The Melancholy Hussar [this last by Hardy], First edition, Als by Hardy ‘ loosely laid in (to Tillotson & Son: "I send MS. of short story entitled 'The Melancholy Hussar', according to the terms of your letter of September 25 ...", Max Gate, 22 October 1889 1pp, 8vo., original light blue cloth, front hinge slightly cracked, chipped at head of spine, lightly worn; Another copy, second state of title page, original pictorial cloth, upper hinge partially split, worn and darkened on spine; Another copy, remainder red cloth binding, upper part of spine damaged, [Purdy, p.82; Collected Letters, I, p.201. Exhibited: 1940 Grolier Club Centenary Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Hardy, items 104, 105 & 107 ] 8vo., 1890 (4) ***Provenance: The present owner; The Library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. Part II: Thomas Hardy. Provenance: Carroll Atwood Wilson, with his bookplates in each volume.