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Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882
Seller: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 12mo. Original brown cloth blocked in black and gilt. All edges gilt. Tenth edition stated on title. Very fine condition. Thaxter has mounted a CDV portrait of herself in the front. Half morocco case. Presentation copy inscribed by the author and artist Celia Thaxter: Mary Mapes Dodge with much love. Illustrated by Celia Thaxter 1882. Dodge is best known as the author of Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates and as a founding editor of St. Nicholas Magazine. Thaxter provided a poem for the first issue of that children s magazine and helped to promote it. A perfect gem of a book illustrated throughout with 33 fine watercolors by Thaxter. They include delicate flowers, spiders, butterflies, feathers, plants, seaweed, landscapes and seascapes, some in the margins and others superimposed upon the text. The colors are rich and fresh, and the pictures are exquisite and detailed. Thaxter was a beloved New England artist and poet whose work was first published in the Atlantic Monthly. Thaxter became one of the most popular poets of her day thanks to her frequent appearances in the Atlantic and the oft-reprinted collections of poems that followed. She knew many of prominent literary and artistic figures of the day including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Sarah Orne Jewett, William Morris Hunt, and Childe Hassam. An accomplished poet, businesswoman, artist, and journalist, Thaxter continues to be read long after most of her contemporaries have been forgotten. This lovely volume, presented by Thaxter to Mary Mapes Dodge, embodies vital strands in the poetry and art of nineteenth-century American women. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Nancy Ruth Leavitt, Stillwater, ME, 2019
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Signed
Original Wraps. Unique. Unique. Original Wraps. Painted in watercolor and gouache on Arches text wove and bound in Katie MacGregor's handmade paper. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Painted sheets; matching dropspine box. fo. np (30 leaves). Illus. (hand colored). Signed by the artist. Fine in Fine Drop-Spine Archival Box.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. CELIA THAXTER/Oscar & Albert LAIGHTON/ISLES OF SHOALS, NH Nice group of 18 hardcover books primarily by these 3 authors & about the Shoals, including 8 1st Editions. Dates 1859--1935. Includes 1 signed by Celia's brother Oscar & 1899 "Songs From Appledore" has rare original dust jacket. Generally very good condition. $3,500. includes shipping, insurance, proper packing. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1894
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Collectible: Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED (at the Isles of Shoals) and dated AUG. 1894 by Celia Thaxter on the front endpaper. Illustrated by Childe Hassam (12 tissue guarded color plates and 10 colored headings). Green cloth stamped in gilt, top page edges gilt, moire like pastedowns and endpapers. The green cloth has occasional light soiling, very light rubbing at the spine ends, and the spine gilt is a bit faded. The gilt on the front and rear panels are still quite bright. The interior has lightly creased corners on the front endpaper, an 1894 ink ownership signature on the second endpaper, and something has been removed from the rear endpaper facing the penultimate leaf. A few glue spots are visible and three have small remnants still attached. There is a 1/2" abrasion near the center of the page (with the tear showing on the verso) and the bottom corner is creased. The remainder of the interior is in excellent condition with the leaves showing just light toning. If not for the rear endpaper, this copy would grade near fine. Signed.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition. Illustrated by Childe Hassam. Tall octavo. White cloth beautifully decorated in gilt by Sarah Wyman Whitman (also issued in green cloth, the white seems less common). A little overall age-toning on the boards, trace of wear to spine tips, light occasional foxing, but a nice and sound very good copy. With the author's cut signature laid-in. The garden plan is present after p. 72. BAL 19923 which calls this one of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period. 1019 copies printed. .
Published by Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, 1894
First Edition
First Edition, publisher's original green cloth; aside from some trivial spots, a fine copy. The book was issued in both white and green cloths, and later, nearly identical editions were also bound in these colors. According to the Bibliography Of American Literature, this is "one of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period." Slightly over one thousand copies were printed. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,, Boston:, 1895
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With color pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam, including twelve tissue-guarded plates. An early printing. Tipped onto the front paste-down is a single sheet with the author's poem, "Song: A bird upon a rosy bough." - written in the author's hand and SIGNED. Octavo, bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations, top edge gilt. Moderate shelf wear and aging, age darkened/foxed along the spine, two previous owners' book-plates on front paste-down (beneath the tipped sheet), newspaper article announcing a previous owner's wedding affixed to front free endpaper, else very good. Binding is solid. ; 126 pages B0195L1IJQ.
Published by Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, 1894
First Edition
First Edition, publisher's original green cloth; minor cloth soiling and wear; bottom edges of the last few leaves a little bumped and stained; about a very good copy. According to the Bibliography Of American Literature, this is "one of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period." Slightly over one thousand copies were printed. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Published by Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1895, 1895
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Signed
Second edition, with an autograph letter signed from the author and dated 6 August 1880 reading: "Gentlemen: Will you kindly send me a copy of sayings of Epictetus, the small, vest-pocket edition, with bill for same & oblige, yours truly, C. Thaxter, Appledore, Isles of Shrals [sic] Off Portsmouth, N. H." tipped-in to the front free endpaper, and a manuscript quotation from the author "The sunrise never failed us yet" signed and dated January 1886 tipped-in between the front free endpaper and the following leaf. Poet and writer Celia Thaxter (1835-1894) spent the majority of her life on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine living and working with her father at his Appledore Hotel, a setting which inspired many of her works. This work is described by BAL as being "one of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period". "Critics are usually in agreement that Celia's finest writing is in An Island Garden, a distillation of her abiding love affair with Appledore. There she planted, experimented with, and nurtured a spectrum of flowers, uncannily prevailing against inimical insects, fungi, and slugs, and fenced her blossoms against the adverse winds" (American National Biography). BAL 19923 for the first edition. Large octavo. Publisher's white cloth, titles and decorative floral motifs in gilt to spine and boards, top edge gilt. 12 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, including the frontispiece, and many in-text colour illustrations. Title page and dividing titles illustrated and printed in colour. Contemporary book label of Frances Clifford Prescott to front pastedown. Cocked, lightly soiled, foot of spine a little bumped; a very good copy indeed.
Published by Houghton Mifflin and Co, Boston and New York, 1894
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Childe Hassam. Tall octavo. White cloth beautifully decorated in gilt by Sarah Wyman Whitman (also issued in green cloth, the white seems less common). Neat contemporary owner name in pencil on the front fly, a little overall age-toning on the boards and a couple of faint stains (two on the front board, and a tiny one on the spine), spine ends just a touch rubbed, a nice and sound very good copy.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1895
Seller: Stone Soup Books, Camden, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1895 Houghton Mifflin, green cloth hardcover with gilt decoration, top edge gilt, cover is lightly soiled, spine darkened, owner's name and date, blind stamp, envelope glued to front pastedown with ephemera, two 1980s letters about the book and an original photograph of Celia Thaxter, a few smudges in page margins, illustrated by Childe Hassam, all illustrations and tissue guards present, 126 pages.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1894
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
First Edition
Handsomely bound in the publisher's original green cloth stamped brightly in gilded flowers and motifs in the art nouveau style designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman. With light wear to the boards and darkening to the spine cloth which is also lightly flecked. The top edges are brightly gilded. Very clean and tight throughout, with the exception of a touch of foxing to the prelims. Printed on heavy stock with with all 12 chromolithographic color plates present and protected by tissue guards with captions. The wonderful, impressionistic watercolors by Hassam sparkle like floral vignettes throughout the book. A lovely, collectible copy of this classic. An Island Garden is described by BAL as being "one of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period". "Critics are usually in agreement that Celia's finest writing is in An Island Garden, a distillation of her abiding love affair with Appledore. There she planted, experimented with, and nurtured a spectrum of flowers, uncannily prevailing against inimical insects, fungi, and slugs, and fenced her blossoms against the adverse winds" (American National Biography). Celia Laighton Thaxter(1835 1894) was an American writer of poetry and stories. For most of her life, she lived with her father on theIsles of Shoalsat his Appledore Hotel.[2]How she grew up to become a writer is detailed in her early autobiography (published bySt. Nicholas), and her book entitledAmong the Isles of Shoals.[3]Thaxter became one of America's favorite authors in the late 19th century. Among her best-known poems are "The Burgomaster Gull", "Landlocked", "Milking", "The Great White Owl", "The Kingfisher", and "The Sandpiper".[4]Celia Laighton was born inPortsmouth, New Hampshire, June 29, 1835, but the family moved soon after to theIsles of Shoals, first onWhite Island, where her father, Thomas Laighton, was alighthouse keeperof theIsles of Shoals Light, and then onSmuttynoseandAppledore Islands. The gradual addition of summer visitors to the fishing population came slowly, Thaxter's father being the first to establish anything like a modern hotel.[5]The means of education were comparatively remote, and the permanent society of the islands for the greater part of the year offered very limited resources for a bright child.[5]During the period of 1849 1850, she attended Mount Washington Female Seminary inSouth Boston.[6] Her first published poem was written during this time on the mainland. That poem, "Land-Locked", was first published in theAtlantic Monthlyin 1861 and earned herUS$10.[7]In 1879,[8]Thaxter suddenly became known upon the literary horizon with a collection of poems entitledDriftwood, and considering that they came from a group of islands, away from the mainland far enough to prevent frequent communication, the debuting work was received with almost as much surprise as pleasure. Although stray poems of the ocean had been published, signed with the name of "Celia Thaxter", still it was difficult for the critical reviewer of Boston to realize that the bearer of this name was actually a long time resident, if not exactly a native of those isles lying off the coast of New Hampshire.[5]Her poetry appeared in theAtlantic,Century,Harper's,Independent,New England Magazine, andScribner's, while her writing for juvenile audiences appeared inOur Young FolksandSt. Nicholas.[6] (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1894 on the title and copyright pages and no subsequent printings listed.
One page; titled 'MY MAIDEN'; 24 lines; signed in ink by the author, 'Celia Thaxter.' Folded twice; tender and splitting at the folds, but overall very good. Undated, but likely from 1886 or 1887. Thaxter was an early user of the typewriter, even endorsing a machine in contemporary advertising. This poem, retitled 'Because of Thee,' was revised and published in 1896 by her friend Sarah Orne Jewett. One of the most popular American women poets of the 19th century, Thaxter is still especially revered in coastal New Hampshire and Maine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston & New York, 1895
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Hassam, Childe (illustrator). Second Edition. Beautiful green cloth with gilt flowers; identical to the first edition published the prior year (1894); a very scarce book with beautiful color illustrations by Hassam; book slightly cocked with several small closed tears to top of spine; spine slightly tanned, covers bright text and illustrations clean and bright; an attractive copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1895
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
ix, 126 pp. With pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam. 8vo, publisher's pale green gilt-decorated cloth, t.e.g., after a design by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Second edition. A beautiful copy.
Published by Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1894
Seller: Clays rare and antique books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Comes with a letter from Barbara Guggenheim to Barbara and her husband, offering the book and quoting the value of the book in 1989 at $894.First edition. Illustrated by Childe Hassam. Tall octavo. White cloth beautifully decorated in gilt by Sarah Wyman Whitman (also issued in green cloth, the white seems less common). A little overall age-toning on the boards spine ends just a touch rubbed, a nice and sound very good copy. This very rare, collectible and beautiful volume is the illustrated classic of an inspired woman and her flower garden on Appledore Island. Celia Thaxter's small garden with hollyhocks and poppies and scarlet flax was much admired by friends, neighbors, and visitors to the island off the coast of Portland, Maine. There, she wrote this collection of remembrances and gardening advice and it was originally published in 1894, shortly before her death. In vivid prose, Thaxter captures the stretching stems and blossoming flowers in moods ranging from bitter defeat, delivered by unrelenting slugs, to the exultant triumph of birdsong and bursting blooms. Any gardener will understand and take heart from Thaxter's philosophical outlook. I am fully and intensely aware, she writes, that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else. Many artists found inspiration on Appledore including the American impressionist, Childe Hassam, who provided this enduring book s many full-page paintings and chapter head decorations. This book is perfect for anyone passionate about flowers and classic books on gardening.
Published by Houghton Mifflin and Co, Boston and New York, 1895
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Second printing. Illustrated by Childe Hassam. Tall octavo. Green cloth beautifully decorated by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Neat contemporary gift inscription on the front fly, a little overall age-toning on the boards, and a couple of barely visible tears on the margin of the frontispiece, a nice, near fine copy.
Published by Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1895
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper, CBA, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1895 reprint, cover designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman, not signed. Hardcover, light green cloth boards with gilt lettering and design to both boards and spine, top edge gilt, foredge untrimmed, 9-1/4" tall, 126 pp., pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam. Toning to spine, soil marks to front cover at title banner, minor flaking to gilt. A beautiful and important book for many reasons, not the least of which is the garden itself, which can still be visited today. It was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1914, but has been restored and maintained by the University of New Hampshire. The binding by Whitman is one of her best, and the Bibliography of American Literature describes it as "one of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period." (BAL 19923).
Dated June 19th, 1875, over 230 words; folded, with a quarter of the verso excised. While there is some discussion of books sent, it is friendly and complimentary, 'My dear Mrs Dodge: I am so delighted to have your picture.you are no Yankee woman!.I hope you will gain all sorts of delightful things in your holiday.' All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Published by Isle of Shoals, 1886
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Mounted in mat. With photo of Ms. Thaxter at her desk. Folio. Text cannot be found online. With photo of Ms. Thaxter at her desk. Folio.
Published by Hardpress Publishing, 2012
ISBN 10: 1290148457ISBN 13: 9781290148450
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. New.
Published by Hardpress Publishing, 2012
ISBN 10: 1290148457ISBN 13: 9781290148450
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
Condition: Very good plus. First appearance, in ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, of Alcott's story about a less common holiday seen in literature, and later incorporated into AUNT JO'S SCRAP BAG. A nostalgic tale set in rural New Hampshire filled with food and games: pudding in brandy, apples and cider, plenty of pies; fiddle tunes, "Blind-man's buff," and "Hunt the slipper." This is a bound volume of six issues of St. Nicholas Magazine volume 9, Part 1 - November 1881 - May 1882, with "Old Fashioned Thanksgiving" appearing on pages 8-16. The volume also contains work by Celia Thaxter, Frank Stockton, and ST. NICHOLAS editor Mary Mapes Dodge (of HANS BRINKER fame). 9.25'' x 6.75''. Early half maroon sheepskin, raised bands, gilt-stamped spine, marbled endpapers. Heavily illustrated in black and white. viii, 504 pages. Pencil owner name to second fly leaf. Faint sunning to spine, touch of wormholing at bottom joints/hinges, light rubbing to joints. Interior clean, firm.
Published by James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1873
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Hard cover, 12mo, in green cloth, stamped in blind to boards and spine, with titles blocked in gold, text block with red stained edges, navy blue end papers, frontispiece plus three additional illustrations, 184pp., First Edition. Incudes a pithy handwrtten note to her publishers tipped in to the ffep.: "Dear Editors, If you wish to keep this poem please send check for it at once in enclosed envelope, if not, kindly .at once.enclose it back to me, obliged, yours truly, C. Thaxter." CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Shows some exterior rubbing, along the joints, head and tale of spine and tips, one of which is bumped. Inside, the ffep has been reglued, but otherwise looks pristine. A small printed old bookstore label is on gutter edge of front endpaper. BAL 19848. Signed Note to "Editors" tipped in demanding payment by return post.
Published by 16 lines on 1 page 8 x 5 inches, in good clean condition, traces of mounts at corners.
Seller: Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Undated. Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835 1894), American writer of poetry and stories. Rock Weeds (1868) uses descriptions of the flora of the Isles of Shoals (off the coast of New Hampshire) to express the melancholy and isolation to be found among nature.
Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Softcover. Book has a printed card cover; folded in and wrapped around endsheets on 3 sides. In addition, there is a glassine dust wrapper. Card covers have some darkening; particularly around perimeter. Card covers also have fairly uniform, overall freckling. Contains the bookplate of Philip Greely Brown on front endpaper; bookplate is very clean. There is a bit of faint offset from bookplate on facing blank page. Page tops darkened. Else text block quite clean; solid. Glassine dust wrapper is present, but quite edgeworn with some chips, tears; and a 3/8" hole in center of spine. VG in tattered glassine wrapper. ; POT10B; 7 x 4-1/2"; 121 pages.
Published by Hurd and Houghton, New York, 1872
Seller: Roadrunner Books, Otsego, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Brown endpapers. Small half inch piece missing from top of spine. Interior clean and bright. Binding is tight. Gilt edges to text block. Good to very good copy.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1896
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 272pp. Frontispiece. Preface by S.O.J. (Sarah Orne Jewett). Gray cloth with printed paper label. Label quite rubbed else a tight, near fine copy. *BAL* 10909 Binding C (no priority) indicating that only 198 copies were bound thus.
First Edition; 'Popular Edition'; first printing. Contemporary gift inscriptions; some minor spotting; very good. One poem is illustrated by Childe Hassam. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
First Edition of the author's first book. Green publisher's cloth; BAL binding 'A' ( no priority established); near fine with a contemporary owner's pencil inscription at the top of the title page, appropriately placed on the Isle of Shoals. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.