Clark mrs harriet e (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by A. D. Worthington & Co., 1895. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. No dust jacket. Fold out World Map included.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Early reprint. 8vo. [4], vii-xxxvi, 37-641, [3] pp. Blue blindstamped publisher's cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; all edges sprinkled purple. Floral endpapers and pastedowns. With a frontispiece, seventeen full-page black and white illustrations, a folding map, and around two hundred in-text engravings, head and tailpieces. Illustrations taken from the author's photographs, reproduced in facsimile in steel-plate engravings. First published in 1894, this is a lovely example of an early reprint. The authors' travel narratives are full of illustrations and descriptive passages of the people they met during their sojourn around the world. A touch of mellowing to the spine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: NEAR FINE. First Edition. 'Sold Only Through Subscription.' 8vo, publisher's sheepskin with gilt ruled spine panels and gilt stamped burgundy morocco label, floral endpapers, speckled edges. 641pp. Frontispiece portrait, color engraved foldout map. 'Superbly Illustrated with steel plate portraits and upwards of twoo hundred choice engravings, mainly from instantaneous photographs taken from life . and a map showing the author's journey around the world.' With just a bit of rubbing to the extremities and a few faint dampstains, the binding remains very clean and supple, an uncommonly nice sheepskin survival; map torn about 3' beneath the first horizontal fold, text entirely clean and sharp. Harriet Clark was a notable writer and sponsor of missions, founder of the 'Mizpah Circle' missions group for girls.…