Atkinson ed caroline p (3 risultati)

Hardcover. No Dust Jacket. Marshall Jones Company, 1918. Octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches] full gilt-embossed navy blue faux-levant cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 471. Fully Illustrated with three sepia halftones of Susan Hale and Edward Everett Hale. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Susan Hale, (1833 1910), was an American author, traveler and artist. She devoted herself entirely to the art of painting in watercolors which she studied under English, French and German masters. Hale traveled extensively, sketching and visiting the galleries of the world. She was associated with her brother, the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, in the publication of The Family Flight series, which included the several countries she had visited. She also exhibited her pictures of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, of North Carolina scenery and of foreign scenes, in New York City and Boston. In exceptionally good condition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2nd. Intro by Edward E. Hale. Ex-lib but very clean. Only bookplate to front paste down & lettering on spine. Black & white Illustrations. Top edge gilt. 472 pgs. Light rubbing and soiling to covers.

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, (1919). Octavo. Second printing. Portrait frontispiece, 483pp. + [2] plates. Publisher's dark navy and gilt-lettered cloth binding; top edge gilt. Vignette illustrations. Two small nicks to edges of front cover; a near fine copy. Susan Hale (d. 1910) was an American educator, painter, traveler, and author of such as Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century and Young Americans in Spain. "Hale excels in the genre of the personal letter. [They] are notable for their distinct voice, vivid descriptions, and humor; many are illustrated with sketches. The protagonist is a sometimes flustered but always essentially competent, energetic, adventurous woman whose self-reliance and love of outdoor activities defies the stereotype of the parlor-bound Victorian lady." (Karen A. Dandurand).…