whitcher alice (5 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Original printed stapled wraps; 41 pages. No additional printings. Giangreco founded the magazine and encouraged his friends and family to contribute. Page 3 carries a small photograph of him. The rear cover has a blurb for Giangreco's "The Bookbinder" and "Circles", two short novels published in one volume. Linda K. Miller also published a book of poetry entitled "Coming to be"; see our listing. The wraps show very light wear and a touch of soil. All contents clean, tight and unmarked. Scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Fittro, Robert; Photographs (illustrator). Original printed stapled wraps; 57 pages. No additional printings. Giangreco founded the magazine and encouraged his friends and family to contribute. The front cover verso has a blurb for Giangreco's "The Bookbinder" and "Circles", two short novels published in one volume, along with Linda K. Miller's "Coming to be" (see our listing for this title). The wraps show very light wear and a touch of soil. All contents clean, tight and unmarked. Scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. xix, [2], 22-403, [7] p., [7] leaves of plates : frontis., ill. ; 19 cm. ; LC: PZ3.W5813 ; OCLC: 123953199 ; brown blind stamped cloth with gold decorations on spine ; Contents: Hezekiah Bedott -- The Widow Essays Poetry -- Widow Jenkins' Animosity -- Mr. Crane Walks In -- The Widow Discourses Or Pumpkins -- The Widow Loses Hes Beau -- Mr. Crane About To Propose -- Mr Crane Walks Out -- The Widow "sets Her Cap" -- The Widow Resolves To Leave Wiggletown -- The Widow Trades With A Peddler -- The Widow And Aunt Maguire Discourse On Various Topics -- The Widow Having Heard That Elder Sniffles Is Sick, Writes To Him -- The Widow Resorts To Elder Sniffles For Religious Instruction -- The Widow Concludes To Publish -- The Widow Prepares To Receive Elder Sniffles On Thanksgiving-day -- The Widow Retires To A Grove In The Rear Of Elder Sniffles' House -- The Widow Writes To Her Daughter, Mrs. Jupiter Smith -- The Rev. Mrs. Sniffles Abroad -- The Rev. Mrs. Sniffles At Home -- The Rev. Mrs. Sniffles Expresses Her Sentiments In Regard To The Parsonage -- Aunt Maguire's Experience -- Aunt Maguire's Description Of The Donation Party -- Aunt Maguire Treats Of The Contemplated Sewing Society At Scrabble Hill -- Aunt Maguire Continues Her Account Of The Sewing Society -- Aunt Maguire's Visit To Slabtown -- Visit To Slabtown Continued -- Mrs. Maguire's Account Of Deacon Whipple -- Mrs. Mudlaw's Recipe For Potato Pudding -- Morning Calls ; Or, Every Body's Particular Friend ; foxed ; repair to endpapers ; FAIR. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. First Edition. B&W Etchings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 403 pages; 1856 Derby & Jackson HC 1st edition in book form. Author unattributed, referred to in Neal's introductions as Mrs. W___________. Lovely copy in original green cloth with elaborate blind stamped borders and designs to covers and gilt garlanded titles to spine with a small cameo portrait of "the widow" at the crown of spine. Square and snug; original yellow endsheets. Publishers 4 pp catalog of ads at rear. Page stock bright and supple. Wood cut plates toning just slightly. An unusual aspect of this copy is the plate opposite page 82, which unlike the other plates is not bound in but tipped on to the spine side margin of page 83. Clot at spine a bit crimped and corners just a little bruised. All around a splendid copy of this early, though posthumous collection of Whitcher's highly regarded humorist and satirical work. VG+ Uncommon in condition.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 197-256. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice Prescott Pianos ad inside front cover; A Tip-top experience on Mooshilauke - article with great photos; The birth of the White Mountains (poem); Mr. Unlukikus has Rheumatism; The Beginning of Methodist Theological Education in New Hampshire; The Lord Escutcheon; The winter is past (poem); The wild flowers of spring; The Shadow of a coming event; The Eames Family in Coos County; Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count of Rumford; The Dear Old Homestead Farm; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy.