Richard watson gilder editor (16 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: VG. 8pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 11 drawings including a small floor-plan, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 25, No. 1, November, 1882. The new office building at Union Square, Manhattan, New York City. Housed in protective mylar report cover.…

Soft cover. Condizione: VG. 8pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 drawings, salvaged from a damaged copy of The Century Magazine, Volume XXIII, No. 5, March, 1882. The Union League, New York City. Housed in protective mylar report cover. H. Hawley, O. Stark, R. Birch, A. Brennan, R. Riordan (illustratore). …

Soft cover. Condizione: VG. 2pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume L, No. 3, July, 1895. Commentary in the Topics of the Time section on the relative benefits of the new trend toward bicycle riding. Housed in protective mylar report cover.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 3pp extract, printed in double columns, bottom corner near spine water stained about 4 inches, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XXIII, #4, February, 1882.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint from the Collections of the University of California Libraries.

Soft cover. Condizione: VG. 4pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 4 drawings, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLI, #2, December, 1890. An advertising supplement. From the text, "I have already fed my horse. There is no stable and no feed, and I am obliged every evening to bring up his oats in saddle-bags from Middlesborough, a distance of five miles. The start down the mountain is early. The descent among the sun-flecked shadows of that forest road will be pleasant. On the way to Middlesborough I turn to the left over Cumberland Gap to give my horse a drink in the immense spring of sweetest and purest freestone water, which issues from a cave in the mountain side." Housed in protective mylar report cover.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. No Jacket. Hardcover bound annual series of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine May 1884 to October 1884. Damp stain to rear cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. No Jacket. Hardcover bound annual series of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine May 1884 to October 1884.

Soft cover. Condizione: Acceptable. No Jacket. contains 'Father Taylor and Oratory' by Walt Whitman; edgewear to wraps, chipping at spine; wraps missing from bottom quarter inch of spine; some staining at page edges.

1/2 leather. Illustrated. 768 pages Leather spine cover and corners over marbled boards. Some minor scuffing to leather at corners and one gutter. Privately owned, signed in pencil by previous owner, Mary E. Bailey, on first free endpage. Brown endpages. Binding tight, pages clean. Contains: Nice series on the South by Edward King with terrific engraved illustrations by Champney; first chapter of Mysterious Island by Jules Verne; Luke, a poem by Brett Harte, an article on Beranger by Albert Rhodes, The Great Airline to the Moon, by Frank R. Stockton (adapted from Jules Vern), Christs Resurrection, Scientifically Considered by Augustus Blauvelt, ishyasringa, a tale of the Mahabharata, an illustrated poem by Clara Hilgargard Tittman, The Boudoir Prophecies, a poem by John Hay, and much, much more. Many engraved illustrations. Social commentary. Events of the day. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Champney, Emily Bayard (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Index. Cover has some wear. Tear at top of spine glued back in place. Bottom frayed. Front hinge weak and restrengthened with glue. Richard Watson Gilder (February 8, 1844 - November 19, 1909) was an American poet and editor. Gilder was born on February 8, 1844. During the American Civil War, he enlisted in the state's Emergency Volunteer Militia in Landis' Philadelphia Battery at the time of the Lee's 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania. After the Battle of Gettysburg, Gilder was mustered out. He became a reporter on the Newark (New Jersey) Advertiser. In 1870, he became editor of Hours at Home, a monthly magazine published by Scribner's. It merged with Scribner's Monthly. Gilder became editor. In November 1881, the monthly was renamed as The Century Magazine, and Gilder remained its editor until his death. Gilder took an active interest in all public affairs, especially those which tend towards reform and good government. He was one of the founders of the Society of American Architects, of the Authors' Club, and of the International Copyright League. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was a close friend of George MacDonald, Scottish poet, author, and preacher. Gilder received the degree of LL.D. from Dickinson College in 1883. Gilder was a member of the Simplified Spelling Board. He was a leader in the organization of the Citizens' Union, a founder and the first president of the Kindergarten Association, and of the New York Association for the Blind. Gilder was chairman of the first Tenement House Commission in New York City. The index includes many references to Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Samuel Clemens and other notables. Rosamond Gilder (born Janet Rosamond de Kay Gilder, 1891 - September, 1986) was an American theater critic. Gilder was a native of Marion, Massachusetts, daughter of writer Richard Watson Gilder. She was raised in New York City in artistic surroundings, and met such figures as Mark Twain, Jacob Riis, and Eleonora Duse. She began contributing articles to Theatre Arts Monthly during the 1920s, and joined its staff in 1936. Ten years later she succeeded Edith Isaacs in its editorship. In 1947 she was one of the founders of the International Theater Institute, in which role she promoted the idea of sending American theater companies to tour abroad. She was elected president of its American arm in 1963, remaining in the post until 1969. She spearheaded the production of numerous theatrical publications, and published articles and books on dramatic subjects as well. Gilder received a Tony Award in 1948 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1950. In 1964 she was enrolled in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. A selection of her papers are held at the New York Public Library. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.…

Hardcover. viii, 960 pages. Illustrations (some full page). Maps. Index. Boards weak and have been previously repaired with tape. Minor edge tear/chip to fep. Some damp staining at page edges noted--all pages separate and text clear. Number stamped on title page. Format is mostly two column. Some illustrations cross columns. The Century Magazine was an illustrated monthly magazine first published in the U. S. in 1881 by The Century Company of New York City, which had been bought in that year by Roswell Smith and renamed after the Century Association. It was the successor of Scribner's Monthly Magazine. The initial editor was Richard Watson Gilder, the managing editor of Scribner's, who would go on to helm The Century for 28 years. Gilder largely continued the mixture of literature, history, current events, and high-quality illustrations that Holland had used at Scribner's. The magazine was very successful during the 19th century, most notably for a series of articles about the American Civil War which ran for three years during the 1880s. It included reminiscences of 230 participants from all ranks of the service on both sides of the conflict. According to an author writing in the New York Times, the publication of The Century "made New-York, instead of London, the center of the illustrated periodicals published in the English language." The magazine was also a notable publisher of fiction, presenting excerpts of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884 and 1885 and Henry James' The Bostonians. Original bound volumes such as this one are extremely scarce, especially when not institutional ex-library. The contents in the six issues in this volume include: Confederate Ram Albermarle, American Machine Cannon, Dynamite Guns, Army Hospitals, Telephone, Fraternities, Russian Exile System, Sally Cash, Irtish, George Kennan, Emma Lazarus, Pope Leo XIII, Abraham Lincoln, Locomotive Chase, Mexican Campaign, Mountaineers, Military System, Sheriff's Work, Ranchman, Siberia, and Sinai. Among the authors are: Walt Witman, Theodore Roosevelt, William Cushing, Edward Eggleston, Horace Porter, George Kennan, Henry James, John Nicolay, John Hay, William Pittenger, Matthew Arnold, James Whitcomb Riley, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Emma Lazarus, John Bigelow, John C. Fremont, and E. W. Kemble. Fair [Merits repair or rebinding] Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…

Hardcover. vi, 972 pages. Illustrations (some full page). Maps. Index. Boards weak and have been previously repaired with tape. Minor edge tear/chip to fep. Some damp staining at page edges noted--all pages separate and text clear. Number stamped on title page. The upper right corner of two Index sheets/4 pages have been lost, with very minor loss of Index text. Format is mostly two column. Some illustrations cross columns. The Century Magazine was an illustrated monthly magazine first published in the U. S. in 1881 by The Century Company of New York City, which had been bought in that year by Roswell Smith and renamed after the Century Association. It was the successor of Scribner's Monthly Magazine. The initial editor was Richard Watson Gilder, the managing editor of Scribner's, who would go on to helm The Century for 28 years. Gilder largely continued the mixture of literature, history, current events, and high-quality illustrations that Holland had used at Scribner's. The magazine was very successful during the 19th century, most notably for a series of articles about the American Civil War which ran for three years during the 1880s. It included reminiscences of 230 participants from all ranks of the service on both sides of the conflict. According to an author writing in the New York Times, the publication of The Century "made New-York, instead of London, the center of the illustrated periodicals published in the English language." The magazine was also a notable publisher of fiction, presenting excerpts of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884 and 1885 and Henry James' The Bostonians. Original bound volumes such as this one are extremely scarce, especially when not institutional ex-library. The contents in the six issues in this volume include: Balloon Experiences, Faith Healing, Indo-China, Liszt, William Morris, Persia, and Homing Pigeons, Authors include Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, Benjamin Franklin, Clarence King, Richard M. Johnston, Thomas Nelson Page, William Dean Howells, Emma Lazarus, Matthew Arnold, Sidney Lanier, Frances Hodgson Burnell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Underwood Johnston. There is a substantial amount of material from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, including information on Antietam, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, South Mountain, New Orleans, Naval Operations, and Shiloh. Among the authors are: O. O. Howard, James Longstreet, Henry Kyd Douglas, George McClellan, D. H. Hill, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Among other topics and authors are: George Bancroft, Civil Liberty and Equal Rights, Democracy, Legal-Tender, Abraham Lincoln, Militia, Mormon Problem, David Crockett, Fisheries, Labor Question, Ocean Signal Stations and E. W. Kemble. Fair [Merits repair or rebinding] Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Eleven volumes (complete), octavos, green cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt; minor shelf-wear; several tender hinges. First collected edition, first volume (May to October, 1865) through final volume (May to October, 1870). The Century Company's own set, owned by Richard Watson Gilder, who edited "Hours" and later edited "Century Magazine"; with the Century Company's spine labels and bookplates, as well as Gilder's library bookplates. Gilder extensively annotated volume 11, which covered a portion of the period he had edited "Hours," commenting about an unpublished Charlotte Bronte letter and his own contributions, "Leisure Moments." --- In 1865 Charles Scribner and Company took its first step into magazine publishing with the pioneering periodical, "Hours at Home," a quasi-religious magazine, which exuded the virtues by which Americans were supposed to live. Articles ranged from sketches of historical personages like Lincoln and Grant to the works of Emerson and Thoreau. In October 1870, "Hours" bowed itself off the literary stage, to make room for "Scribner's Monthly," the first number of which appeared in November. A unique set with a distinguished provenance. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft Cover. No Jacket. Soft Cover. No Jacket. Bound into Decorative Stiff Wraps with Very Unique Rounded Wooden Spine, cover has minor wear & Scuff with small orange stain on back Cvr & on few pgs, interior Book VG+/VG- with few page tears or cut s, VG+/VG-, AS-IS.

1p., 4to. A fair copy, on a piece of aged high-acidity paper, with chipping and loss to edges (not affecting text). Signed at foot. The poem begins: 'Heart of a hero in a poet's frame, / Soul of a soldier in a body frail, - / Thine was the courage clear that did not quail / Before the giant champions of shame'. Gilder is praised as a 'poet, patriot, friend', the poem concluding: 'Thou leavest two great gifts that will not die, - / Amid the city's noise, thy lyric cry! / Amid the city's strife, thy noble deed!' Gilder's 'noble deed' is presumably his chairmanship of the first Tenement House Commission in New York City, a post which he filled with great distinction.…