Edwin Watts Chubb (129 results)

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Stewart & Kidd Co., 1920, 1920. Hardcover. second printing. Pages 263,octavo, hardcover, second printing. Black and white illustrations. Book has some wear at cover edges, Good plus. Without a dust jacket. 111002A.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG (spine slightly darkened). No Jacket. 2nd Printing. White and black decorative titles on green cloth. 369pp. Owner's label fep. Size: 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Cover taped together. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Significant damage due to wetness. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is very loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not marked; Ex-Library; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Faded spine. Content is aged toned. No DJ.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First. 8vo. corner from p 3/4 torn off with some loss to text, corner itself slipped in so could be repaired. moderate wear to rough cut pages with some dust soiling. moderate/heavy wear to boards with some knocking of extremities. backstrip faded. top of rear hinge splitting and fraying. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very slight shelfwear, spine a little darkened, very good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stories of Authors: British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb was originally published by Sturgis & Walton Company, New York, in February, 1910. Not an ex-library copy, this 5" X 7 1/2", 103-year-old, 369-page, May, 1910, First Reprinted offering is in G+ condition. Still in quite decent overall shape, physically, there is some noticeable shelf wear along the last 1"-1 1/4" of the bottom of the book's spine, and much less so at the top edge of same. There is modest yellowing of endpapers front and back as well as the pages of text. A previous owner's unusually neat signature, in black ink, is seen on the upper-third portion of the front loose end page. From Preface, "The purpose of this book is to help in making literature and the makers of literature alive and interesting. Few schools have libraries including the bound volumes of the magazines of the past quarter of a century. But what an aid such a collection is to the appreciation of literature! The dignified and abbreviated history of literature cannot indulge in such delightful gossip as is found in the freer essay and fuller biography. To show the excellences of the art and the lovableness of the artist rather than to hunt for defects is the duty and the delight of the teacher of literature. This does not mean, however, that one dare never see the weaker side, the foibles and eccentricities of the [men and women] of genius." The author's wish was, indeed, to show his assorted subjects as all too human, imperfect beings who had some pretty darn interesting aspects to their personalities that might prove inspiring enough to young, eager students' minds to urge them to make further inquiries of some of these celebrated wordsmiths. Some 33 noted English writers are included, among them Shakespeare, Milton, Dr. Johnson, Gibbon, Burns, Ruskin, the Brownings, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Darwin, Lewis Carroll, Stevenson, and Kipling. Twenty-five or so American writers of renown are profiled, among them Franklin, Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Thoreau, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Lanier, Twain, Crane, Hamlin Garland, and Eugene Field. And, there are, beginning with the book's Frontispiece featuring Geoffrey Chaucer, some 11 full-page portraits of some of the aforementioned artists, all presented in an antique-like, purplish-brown shade/tint. If you, Reader, enjoy getting your hands on some of the behind-the-scenes details on celebrity-type individuals, here is just that sort of gossipy, secretive info, or what might have passed for same, in 1910. Includes Table of Contents and List of Illustrations. Thanks!.…

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover. No dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Bindings tight, hinges strong. Cover does not match illustration.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Thus. 8vo. 263pp. Illus. Slight spotting of front cover. Reprinted from the original edition published by S~tewart & Kidd Company in 1915. In the "Essay Index Reprint Series". Book.

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Stories of Authors. Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 369p. A decorated green cloth hardcover book in very good condition. The spine is tanned and lightly worn at the bottom; the spine text is mostly rubbed out. Early owner's neat signature on front endpaper. Top corner of text block lightly dampstained. Otherwise, text clean and binding secure. Contains a portrait of each featured author. …

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.