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Published by New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, MCMXXIV (1924), 1907, 1924
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 322 pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 07-33932 ; Gullans & Espey ; 283; LC: PS3117 ; OCLC: 26560136 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : Days off -- A holiday in a vacation -- His other engagement -- Books that I loved as a boy -- Among the Quantock Hills -- Between the lupin and the laurel -- Little Red Tom -- Silverhorns -- Notions about novels -- Some remarks on gulls -- Leviathan -- The art of leaving off. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in Illustrations by F.E. Schoonover.; Dark blue (C183)--calico grain cloth; gilt lettering framed by gold, pale green, pale blue and white lupin and laurel design; wear to covers ; flower motif repeated on spine in gilt; partially untrimmed ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; G. Book.
Published by New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921, 1921
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. ix, 319 pages, [6] leaves of photographic plates : illustrations ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 21-7796 ; Gullans & Espey 288 ; OCLC: 1406397 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; "Some of the chapters in this book were written as a series of monthly papers in Scribner's magazine in the years 1920-21"--Preface. ; Contents : Camp-fires and guide-posts -- A certain insularity of islanders -- A basket of chips -- Self, neighbor, and company -- Sympathetic antipathies -- Publicomania -- Moving day -- Firelight views -- Fishing in strange waters -- The pathless profession -- A mid-Pacific pageant -- Japonica -- Interludes on the koto -- Suicidal tendencies in democracy -- A bundle of letters -- Christmas greens -- On saying good-bye -- Fellow-travellers : An old-style American -- Interpreter's house -- The healing gift -- A traveller from Altruria. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; fine illustrations from photographs by Mathilde Weil ; "Mathilde Weil was born in Pennsylvania in January 1872. She was interested in art from an early age, and studied drawing and painting in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Decorative Art League, and the Museum of Industrial Art, and at a summer school in Annisquam, Massachusetts. In 1892, Weil obtained a bachelor of arts degree from Bryn Mawr College and almost immediately secured literary positions. Between 1893 and 1896, she read manuscripts for the publisher Macmillan and she served as an editor for Book Review and American Historical Review. Weil acquired her first camera in the winter of 1896-97 and established a portrait studio within a few months. Locating her studio in Philadelphia's main business district, Weil soon became one of the city's most well-known portraitists. She charged the highest fees and avoided the excess retouching that was routine in photographic portraits. Her specialties were children and home and outdoor portraiture. On the latter, she wrote two articles; one made up an entire issue of Photo-Miniature (January 1904) and the other appeared in the May 1906 issue of Country Life in America." -- Christian Peterson ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in turquoise blue cloth over boards; stamped in gold on front cover and spine; top edge gilt and trimmed. ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; VG. Book.
Published by New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924, 1912, 1924
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. April 1921 printing ; viii, 306 pg. [8] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 12-23517 ; LC: PZ3.V288; Dewey: 813.52 ; OCLC: 798767 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; "This volume contains nineteen very pleasant short stories, all of which have some mystical touch in them."--The Spectator. ; Contents : The wedding-ring -- Messengers at the window -- The countersign of the cradle -- The key of the tower -- The ripening of the fruit -- The king's jewel -- The music-lover -- Humoreske -- An old game -- The unruly sprite -- A change of air -- The night call -- The effectual fervent prayer -- The return of the charm -- Beggars under the bush -- Stronghold -- In the odour of sanctity -- The sad shepherd -- The mansion. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in Illustrations by Charles Shepard Chapman and Garth Jones.; "Born in Morristown, New York, Charles Chapman was a noted teacher, painter, and illustrator who, although he often claimed he was self-taught, was educated at Pratt Institute*, and in 1899 at William Merritt Chase's New York School of Art* in New York City. He was highly influenced by the famed western artist Frederic Remington. One of his techniques he described was painting with "Water-Oils", where he floated oil paint on water on paper, and then laid paper over the floating design, which left an abstract affect. Chapman specialized in landscapes, and although he spent most of his life in the East, he traveled extensively in the West, especially Wyoming and Arizona where a frequent subject was the Grand Canyon. In 1938, he spent a month at the Canyon and also painted ranch landscapes and in the Snowy Range of Wyoming. n the 1930s, he was commissioned by the Museum of Natural History in New York to paint a thirty-by-thirty-foot mural of the Grand Canyon as a background for the Puma group exhibit. He camped for several weeks at the rim of the Canyon while he worked on this project."--AskART ; "Alfred Garth Jones (1872-1955) was an English artist and illustrator who worked mainly in woodcut, pen and ink line art drawing and watercolour. In America, his illustrations for Henry van Dyke's short stories the Half-Told Tales appeared in the January to June, 1912 issue of Scribner's Magazine.[13] In October 1912, Charles Scribner's Sons published the first edition of Van Dyke's The Unknown Quantity, with artwork by various illustrators, of which Garth Jones was one ; Dark blue (C183)--calico grain cloth; gilt lettering framed by gold, pale orange design; flower motif repeated on spine in gilt; partially untrimmed ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; VG. Book.
Published by New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921, 1921
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. April 1921 printing ; viii, 306 pg. [8] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 19-4519 ; LC: PZ3.V288; Dewey: 813.52 ; OCLC: 3877039 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; "This volume contains nineteen very pleasant short stories, all of which have some mystical touch in them."--The Spectator. ; Contents : A Remembered dream -- Antwerp road -- A City of refuge -- A Sanctuary of trees -- The King's high way -- The Traitor in the house -- Justice of the elements -- Ashes of vengeance -- The Broken soldier and the maid of France -- The Hearing ear -- Sketches of Quebec -- A Classic instance -- The New era and carry on -- The Primitive and his sandals -- Diana and the lions -- The Hero and tin soldiers -- Salvage point -- The Boy of Nazareth dreams. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in Illustration by Edward Hopper. The story of the Scribner's work, which was important to Hopper, is recounted by Gail Levin: "Fame fostered Hopper's career in illustration. In September 1918, he began to sell to Scribner's, a cut above his usual clients. Walter TIttle claimed credit for the first assignment: 'I succeeded in getting him a bit of work from Scribner's magazine almost by brow-beating my old friend [Joseph Hawley] Chapin [the art editor], insisting that here was a man really too good for him.' Hopper's wife came on the scene to observe: 'Scribner's were wonderful to him, let him go his own gait, careful not to give him things not his kind to do.' His kind: te first story they gave him to read was 'The hearing ear', by Henry Van Dyke, which dealt with heroic rescue in the war. The two drawings, which appeared in the issue of December 1918, added one hundred dollars to Edward's books." ; Dark blue (C183)--calico grain cloth; gilt lettering framed by gold, with red and white lily designs; flower motif repeated on spine in gilt; partially untrimmed ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; scarce Hopper source ; VG. Book.