Hawthorne charles e (9 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Washington: The National Museum of American Art, 1983. Oblong 4to, 28 p., original wraps. An exhibition catalog issued to coincide with a show held Apr 15 - Sep 3, 1983. Foxing to wraps (both inner and outer); heavy spotting to outer front wrap; offsetting to one plate. From the library of Artist Eduardo Giobbi, with his ink notes and underlining throughout.…

Zustand: Bueno. Alhambra. Madrid 1960. Rustica. 367 pp. 18x13. Bilingue Ingles-Español.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. 1st 1936. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. A small Connecticut sea coast town seems hardly a scene for a pirate story. Lilac cloth with white titles. Yellow endpapers are maps of Bluefish Cove. 177 pages. B/w chapter headers. Spine and corners bumped. Dustwrapper is edge worn and creased. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Pont, Charles E. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Two scarce and illustrated editions of classic children's books by French author Jules Verne and American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Two scarce editions of beloved children's books: Round the World in Eighty Days and Adventures in Southern Africa in one volume, written by prolific French author Jules Verne, and A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales in one volume, written by American short story novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published between 1900-1935.In the publisher's original red decorative cloth (Eighty Days) and pictorial cloth (Tanglewood). Eighty Days contains seven illustrated plates, and Tanglewood contains eight illustrated plates, including six in colour. Collated complete.Round the World in Eighty Days and Adventures in Southern Africa, the classic adventure children's stories, as part of the Boys' Golden Library series. (c.1900, Hutchinson and Co.)A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, short stories inspired by Ancient mythology and adventures, retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The name 'Tanglewood' was inspired by the Gilded Age mansion in which he wrote the novels. In the publisher's original red decorative cloth (Eighty Days) and pictorial cloth (Tanglewood). Externally, mostly smart, with the odd mark, heavier to back board of Tanglewood. Slight edge wear, and fading to spine. Rubbing to the joints, heavier to rear joint of Tanglewood where cloth has lifted. Bumping to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities. The odd faint spot to spines. End papers are generally bright and clean, with minor smudging. Offsetting to front free end paper of Tanglewood, and previous owner's gift inscription. Tanglewood is missing rear free end paper, while Eighty days is missing free end papers. Tender hinges to end papers of Tanglewood, and loose hinges to end papers of Eighty. Internally, firmly bound, with slight wear to hinges between leaves pp. 80-81, and pp.128-129 of Southern Africa (in Eighty Days). Pages are generally bright and clean, with rare spot to leaf extremities of Eighty and the odd spot and mild age toning to Tanglewood. Previous owner has rendered a couple of plates to Eighty Days. Good. R.S.E. Taylor; Various [inc. Charles Folkard] (illustrator). book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Gene Tratton Porter - The Woman - Glimpses of Novelist's Inner Life Revealed in Intimate Talk with Friend; How the South Regards the Negro - "We shall speak with no malice in our hearts - We aim merely to be frank"; "Off Agin! On Agin! Gone Agin! - there have been 25 Premiers of France this century, almost one a year; Is Europe Satisfied with the League of Nations? - governments and peoples differ as to what benefits, if any, are to be derived; New Salem, Illinois - The Town That Put Lincoln on the Map; Passing of the Yankee Country Store - better transportation and mail order house have sounded knell of village emporium; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - there is much that can be done to lift up America's back lands lf neglect; Editorials - the true sesqui-centennial, up from slavery, scarcely any play can get by today on Broadway without a prostitute, war debts, Max Goldberg and the murder of "Lefty" Kanter; Woodrow Wilson - Master of Dreams (part 7); Traveling Around Without a Coat - a garment which becomes a symbol of respectability and passport to civilization; Voyage of the Victoria (2nd part of a series) - Finding of the Spiceries; What I Remember of Longfellow - famous Novelist's son give intimate personal recollections of the author of 'Evangeline'; The Bedouins and the Wahabis (short article); Nations take action for World Sanitation; A Dance a Week - The Minuet - with piano sheet music; R.C. (Mac) MacLeod and his Walla Walla, Washington magazine "Up-to-the-Times"; The Last of the Catawba Nation; Fantastic photos of unusual occupations - Paris rat catcher, alligator trainer, Swiss lace-maker, village musicians of Brittany, One-man travelling restaurant in Java, and a Cairo drinking water pedlar. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Graham, J.C.; Honore, Paul (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Firestone ad inside front cover features mother and children; Why Half the People Do not Vote - An Explanation; Booth Tarkington Talks of Many Things; Farming Must Become a Chemical Industry - development of co-products will solve present agricultural problem; Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech; The Use of Great Names in 'Blue Sky' Swindles; Ye Knife - Ye Forke - Ye Spoone - a brief history of those noble tools; Henry Ford's Page - money, a national commodity, has been made a private concession; Editorial - news from Russia that the only Jew remaining in a position of importance is Litvinov as the Communist Party threatens to become anti-Semitic after the death of M. Djerjinski; The Harvard of Our Forefathers; The Ebb and Flow of Winged Waves - bird article; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 12) - When Pirates Ruled; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - M. Loewenstein Makes an Offer, That Monkey Opera in Budapest, Chess Comes from India; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Bennett, R.O.; Broecker, Richard; Clarke, W.W.; Van Der Heyden, Gerald; Honore, Paul (illustrator). …

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. A scarce complete set of Powgen Press' 'The American Renaissance Series', a fantastic selection of writings by eminent American authors. Complete in six volumes, scarce to find as a complete set.Each volume is in the original unclipped dust wrapper.In the original slipcase and chemise. Chemise is in a very good condition, slipcase is very good indeed.A lovely set of six pieces of writing by six of the most important American authors, Powgen Press' 'The American Renaissance Series'.Poe's volume in this set contains a short story about a man, narrating his survival of a shipwreck and a whirlpool. Irving's 'Sleepy Hollow' is one of the most popular short stories ever written, an eerie piece of Gothic horror.This set contains:'A Descent into the Maelstrom', by Edgar Allan Poe, with a frontispiece and decorations by Charles McCurdy. Published in March 1936.'Life Without Principles', by Henry David Thoreau, with four illustrations by Susanne Suba. Published in April 1936'Legends of the Province House', by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with a frontispiece and decorations by Jean Lamont. Published in June 1936.'Compensation', by Ralph Waldo Emerson, with designs by C. Barney Moore. Published in July 1936.'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', by Washington Irving, illustrated with a frontispiece and decorations by Mary Dana. Published in August 1936.'Song of Myself', part one of the first edition of 'Leaves of Grass', by Walt Whitman, with decorations by Jos. A. Low. Published in September 1936. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrappers, in a paper-covered slipcase and chemise. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the boards, a little heavier to 'A Descent into the Maelstrom'. Spine labels are age-toned. Spines of 'Sleepy Hollow' and 'Legends of the Province' are faded. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpapers. Dust wrappers are lightly edge worn, with a couple of very small closed tears. Wraps are very light age-toned with a few light handling marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Light shelf wear and fading to the slipcase and chemise. Chemise is in a very good condition, slipcase is very good indeed. Near Fine. Jean Lamont; Susanne Suba; C. Barney Moore; Jos. A. Low; Charles E. McCurdy; Mary Dana (illustrator). book.…

First, Limited Edition. Edition of 99 copies, printed at Southworth-Anthoensen Press. Slim quarto (27cm); cloth-backed, paste-paper covered boards; 35,[10]pp; two inserted leaves of plates (one folding). A few spots of rubbing to board edges, else a Near Fine copy, internally fresh and unmarked. An address delivered by bookseller Charles Goodspeed before the Club of Odd Volumes in 1946; the transcript was originally published in the American Neptune, and is reproduced here with an additional plate.…