Thaxter Celia Hassam Childe (108 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hassam, Childe (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.32.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Childe Hassam (illustrator). Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.4.

Condition: Very Good. Hassam, Childe (illustrator). Very Good Condition. Has some wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Childe Hassam (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: New; unopened. Childe Hassam (illustrator). Lovely accompaniment to Celia Thaxter's well known An Island Garden. This daybook features room for appointments or notes daily, and the beautiful illustrations of Childe Hassam grace every page. Thaxter was a popular and respected poet, essayist, and journalist of the late 19th century who spent her life, from childhood, among the New England literati, mostly in the community that gathered around her father's hotel on Appledore Island off the coast of Maine. By the time she took over the hotel, the community had expanded to include artists like Hassam, one of America's premier impressionist painters, who produced some of his best work in her flower garden. See our listing for An Island Garden, the glorious book on which this daybook is based.

Cloth. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Childe Hassam; Sarah Wyman Whitman (illustrator). A beautiful copy, immaculate in an immaculate slipcase. Green cloth, printed in gold to an Art Nouveau design by Sarah Wyman Whitman. With a plan of the famous garden in the Isles of Shoals, Maine, and many colored illustrations by Childe Hassam. As new in green cloth slipcase with Illustrated paste-on. A facsimile of the 1894 first edition, in the original shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Childe Hassam (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Green covers with gilt floral decorations and lettering. It's without previous owners' markings. Illustrated with twelve color plates by Impressionist Childe Hassam, as well as illuminations, all are Fine. It does have a bit of spine fade, which keeps this from Fine., Tight and clean, lovely. The green slipcase is Fine, the color pastedown on the front of flower garden with the title, author and illustrator is Fine, tightly adhered. Very nice.

VG-/None. First edition, 1st printing, Deluxe large paper edition. Navy blue cloth boards with beveled edges, title stamped in gilt on spine. TEG, other edges uncut. This copy has a large (13" x 10") ornate design stamped on the front cover that has gilt and silver flowers in a silver cobweb centered in the upper LH corner, the title and the author's name also stamped in gilt, all this framed within 2 gilt rules. Copyright 1886, no other dates. The only bibliographical reference found about this book is Helen Card's catalog #4 (which offered a massive near complete Howard Pyle collection). She noted 2 editions of this book were published in 1886, one a folio size 'illustrated by Greenaway, Pyle, Joseph Pennell . . . The plates printed by hand in color on india paper and bound in vellum cloth. Unrecorded by either Morse-Brinckle [standard Pyle bibliography] or Theodore Bolton," the other an Octavo edition with illustrations printed from wood engravings. She also notes the 1891 Thaxter 4to book 'Verses" is a reprint of the 1886 'Idyls and Pastorals' edition. The Helen Card catalog did offer a copy of the 1891 'Verses' edition, but the 1886 printings were scarce enough it had no copies. Lacking other bibliographical references or other copies to compare, one must regard the deluxe folio size first edition of this book as very scarce - while not in vellum, this is clearly the deluxe folio edition noted by her. The most attractive feature of this particular copy is probably the front cover with its elegant design apparently repeated on the octavo and 4to editions but in nowhere near as large a size - the front cover of this copy can be graded near fine. But alas there is a downside to this remarkable find - the paper is very prone to foxing, and the book was also at one time was in contact with moisture. The result is that except for the TEG, the paper edges are foxed brown, many pages have substantial foxing, and all plates have foxing around the edges (although the images themselves are in general not foxed). There is a faint water stain to the lower RH of most pages (but not in the same place!), and there was a water in contact with half the back cover (that damage now has been conserved and touched up and thus no longer detracts from the book's external appearance). The binding of this copy was weak (no doubt all copies have this problem since the book is so heavy), but it has now been strengthened by a professional restorer who replaced it with one of matching colors while retaining and laying on the original cloth so expertly it is not noticeable. New endpapers were also added, but otherwise everything else is original and it is now an attractive looking book. The interior illustrations include 1 by Howard Pyle, 2 by Thaxter friend Childe Hassam, an unusual painting by Kate Greenaway of a young girl all bundled up for Thaxter's 'Little Brown Maiden' poem, a Civil War related image (by T. W. Wood) of 2 young black girls for Thaxter's 'Connoisseurs', a Joseph Pennell pen & ink for 'A Venetian Boat Scene', and many other period prints. One of the lesser plates is lacking (#19 (by Mrs. L. B. Humphrey), but whether it was omitted, never published or removed is not clear without comparison to another copy. No doubt an interesting item for the completist collector of Thaxter, Pyle, Hassam. Greenaway, art nouveau or perhaps some other interest. TO SEE MORE PICTURES AND ADDITIONAL SPECIAL ITEMS, VISIT OUR BOOKSELLER's HOMEPAGE.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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. .