Smith jessie ann (7 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. First Edition. Autobiography of Jessie Ann Smith who was born 17 July 1853 in Gartly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She married John Smith ca. 1884 and immigrated to Canada. John died ca. 1905 and Jessie continued to rear her children in British Columbia. Jessie died 7 February 1946 in Spence's Bridge, B.C. 128 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm. Solid ! No oiwner's marks bpresent. p. An almost 'as new' copy - bright & fresh. Weight, 190g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. From $3.00 to $6.50 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Clean unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Undated, early twentieth century. Loosely bound illustrated boards with cloth spine. Some handling wear and marks, mostly scuffing along the spine hinges, edges and corners. A little loss to the spine edges with cracked internal spine hinges. With illustrations in Colour by Jessie Willcox Smith (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Used, soft cover, 1989 first edition. Condition: as new.128 pages.

Softcover. 222 pp. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., 02 June - 09 September 2006. Softcover. Good condition; on covers: touches of wear and of color rubbing; light mark on side edges of papers.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 128 page British Columbia (auto)biography with `Sources' and INDEX at back. The author left Scotland, with her orchardist husband, for British Columbia in 1884. She first put these words to paper about 1934. LEARN more about :King Edward Vii, greenhouse, Murray Estate, prospecting, Granite Creek, James Teit, Voght's Valley, and Hotel Hermitage. B/W map verso half-title. Text assisted by b/w photographs. Murphy Shewchuk, J. Meryl Campbell. and Audrey Ward all helped flesh out this project. Cond : Paper wrapper is green (and blue) with gold coloured lettering. Artist's rendition of the widow Smith appearson the cover. Tight, bright, clean, and square. No names, marks, creases nor wear. Giftable ! ! QUote (p. 82) : " We all spent a very happy evening to welcome their homecoming. Miss Trueman, the children's governess who was still with us, played some suitable and lovely pieces on the piano during the evening. The next day John went to look over ._._._. .". B/W Photographs (illustratore). …

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHORS. 8vo. Original black cloth, lettered in white and yellow. Extremities bruised, white marks and scuffing to bottom board, spine baggy. Gently toned, inscribed in black pen, and two hands, to title page: "To our former secretary of special collections A. Allen Shockley and Sue P. Chandler, best wishes always.", pen scoring and star to one paragraph of Preface. Else, clean and bright. Very good. An unusual presentation copy of Ann Allen Shockley and Sue P. Chandler's 1973 pioneering biographical directory of Living Black American Authors, inscribed to their former colleague and secretary at Fisk University Special Collections, Mrs. Alice Mason, who worked (in her free time) with them on the book; Mason is also included in Shockley's Preface, a paragraph scored and marked with a star: "Grateful acknowledgement is extended to my former secretary, Mrs. Alice Mason, who painstakingly typed all drafts of the manuscript during her spare off-duty hours." Completed on weekends and "sandwiched in between" by the two Fiske University Special Collections librarians, their directory was "a meaningful and important landmark to those black writers who are making a niche in the publishing world which has neglected black writers for two long. The attainments listed in these entries give testament to an awakening response to black authors and their work." Ann Allen Shockley (1927-) is an author and former academic librarian, professor of library science and activist archivist, who specialised in African-American collections. She founded the Black Oral History Program at Fisk University, where she was the Head of Special Collections. Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks and Toni Morrison feature here, alongside Shockley herself (with this title) and referencing a title in preparation, "A Love So Bold," which likely became Loving Her (1974), Shockley's (also) pioneering first novel, which featured a black lesbian protagonist.…