Brazza countess di cora slocomb (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Spine is cracked at a pre-lim. Corners have some chipping, and are bumped. Spine has heavy wear at the ends, and is lightly faded. Covers have some scuffing, and wear. ; Wright 3-4963.

8Vo Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 2nd. 244pp. Tan boards, black lettering and graphics on spine and front board. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are secure with some separation and mesh exposure at joints. Textblock is square with pointed corners. Moderate++ overall book shelf/timewear, boardwear, sunning, considerable abrading and chipping at board and spine corners and edges, some spotting and foxing, pageblush throughout, written names on first two frontleafs.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Attractive original blue decorated cloth. Story set in Southern Ariizona with extensive explanatory notes about Indians and Mexicans in the area. Some faint spotting on the back cover, Very Good Plus.

Octavo, pp. [1-6] xv-xvii [xviii] 19-244 [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], inserted frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text, original purple cloth, front panel stamped in gold and black, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Presentation copy with 1896 Christmas gift inscription to "Miss Sims" by Slocomb signed "the author." "Ethnographic romance set in Southern Arizona about the relationship between a white gentleman-scholar ('the Scientist') who visits the region to learn about its flora and fauna, including the local Indians, and the young maiden, Ampharita, who waits on him and becomes infatuated with him and his tales of the wonders of the civilized world beyond her pueblo. Things end tragically, but with a final redemptive note afforded by his vision of the perished maiden urging him to value Love over Knowledge. Of interest mainly for the careful ethnographic research that went into the writing (forty pages of "explanatory notes" and "glossary of Indian and Mexican Terms" follow the story) and the many detailed drawings." - Robert Eldridge. Wright (III) 4963. Cloth stained, hinges cracked still a sound, good, internally clean copy of an uncommon book. (#139203). Signed.…