roseboro viola (13 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards with some fading at eges and marks. Content is clean with some light foxing to pages and foxing/toning to outer edge pages. Embosser stamp on title page and half torn of sticker on front pastedown. No DJ.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good Illustrated. Bound in brown cloth with embossed design on front board. Cover is fraying on corners and spine with some ink marks on front board.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. NY: Macmillan, 1904. 334 pages, hardbound. A VG copy with clean contents and a tight, brown cloth binding with decorative, multi-colored stamping and very light edgewear. DJ is poor, in one piece, but heavily worn, chipped and soiled.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper as follows: "For Miss Grace Barnes | with affectionate regards, | from | V. R." Tipped on to the front pastedown is an ALS on blue paper in the same hand as the gift inscription, which reads as follows: "Dear Girl, If you have been as breathlessly busy since our delightful lunch as I have (and how can I doubt it?) you've hardly felt my unintentional tardiness in making this humble offering. I've been making a fight for a bit of [leisure? dinner?], and I'm going to get down soon! Cordially Viola Roseboro." vii[3]3-334p. Dedicated to Miss Jennie Worthington, Columbus, Mississippi, in part as follows: "When you did 'see the back of a curtain' (traditional initiation), you were with me and among the people of whom I write. Time and change and death have worked us many an ill since those days: the more thankful I for the blessings of my youth that are left me. In gratitude for a tie that is as it was then, I beg you to accept this dedication from your devoted friend, V. R." Brown cloth with gilt letters on the front cover and the spine and with a wreath cartouche in green, gilt and white on the front cover of the traditional player's mask, a horn, and a sword, which design in abbreviated form is repeated on the spine. Top edge stained brown four- and bottom edges untrimmed. Some wear to the extremities with a couple of corners just barely rubbed through, covers very lightly soiled, gilt letters mainly bright, top and bottom of spine just barely beginning to fray, decorative design intact, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. PLAYERS AND VAGABONDS was the third book by Viola Roseboro' (sic), who is best known for having served as fiction editor for both McClure's and Collier's magazines. She is credited with introducing Willa Cather to McClure's and in having "discovered" Booth Tarkington and O. Henry. Her Jan. 30, 1945, NY Times obituary praised Roseboro' for her discerning eye for fiction and her mentorship of young writers, as well as her gifts as a conversationalist. She is said to have been the prototype for Willa Cather's My Mortal Enemy and is the subject of a biography, Viola, The Duchess of New Dorp (1955). The "Grace Barnes" of the gift inscription and A.L.S. may have been the woman who served as both artistic and administrative assistant to the stained glass artist John La Farge. This book consists of nine stories about the theater. Signed by Author(s).