Doudney Adams (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good clean tight copy with light wear. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Rough edges, back cover cracked by the spine and beginning break away.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Cover illustration and several illustrations in the text (illustrator). First Edition. Fine in original wrappers. This small book was issued as a promotional piece by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Both of the poets in this book were very popular during the later 19th century. Sarah Doudney's poem was written when she was 15 years old, and it was reprinted widely. Adams poem is a humour take on "The Water Mill" done in the German dialect the characterizes much of Adams work.

Hardback, bound in blue cloth with gilt floral decoration, the binding has a little light wear and a small white mark, it is sound. There is a prize plate on the pastedown. A few leaves have some foxing, it is otherwise clean and crisp. Portrait +viii + 290 +[4].

Condition: Very good. - Vesigimo-quarto (24mo), 4-3/8 inches high by 4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial pink wraps, titled and elaborately illustrated in shades of black & gray on the front cover and with ads on the rear cover. [16] pages, with several textual illustrations. There is a miniscule tear to the bottom edge of the covers and pages and faint score marks to the rear cover. Very good. Two poems published as advertisement for Hood's Sarsaparilla. The title poem "The Water Mill" by Sarah Doudney is followed by "Der Vater-Mill" playfully written in Pennsylvania-German dialect by Charles Follen Adams. The two poems are interspersed with promotional material for Hood's Sarsaparilla, together with testimonials proclaiming how the product "Purifies the Blood", is "The Best Spring Medicine", "For That Tired Feeling", and that it "Cures Scrofula and all Humors", etc.The English fiction writer and poet Sarah Doudney (1841-1926) is the author of the first poem. Known for her hymns and children's literature, her poem "The Lesson of the Water-Mill" was written when she was just 15 years old and published in the Anglican Churchman's Family Magazine in 1864.The American writer of humorous poetry Charles Follen Adams (1842-1918) was best known for his poems written in Pennsylvania German dialect. "Der Vater-Mill" was published by Lothrop, Lee & Shephard in his book "Yawcob Struss and Other Poems".

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 2nd Edition. Lacks front endpaper.Name of owner at start of book. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Top spine bit scuffed.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1894 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 315 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 315.