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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Rare signed copy of a fun book: Wife of a loyal but fiercely opinionated husband, Mrs. Appleyard is impish about expected things, unexpected and sturdily, individually Bostonian. This is her calendar year, from New Year's resolutions to Christmas cards and shopping, what each month brings a new surprice. Signed by Author(s).
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THE BROOKLINE TRUNK. [ SIGNED ]
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston,, 1955
First Edition Signed
8vo. pp 306. Original pale blue cloth lettered white at spine., with slight edge wear and mottling otherwise near VG copy in slightly used VG dust jacket. Signed presentation copy on the prelims - - -" on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the town of Brookline Louise Louise Andrews." First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.
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Mrs. Appleyard's Year (Correct first edition and binding in dust jacket) Signed "Louise Andrews Kent" on the half-title page.
Published by Houghton Mifflin/ The Riverside Press, Boston, 1941
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
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First Edition Signed
Sturdily bound in finely woven grey cloth stamped in red lettering on the front boards which features the design of a weathervane and on the spine. Light wear and rubbing to the extremities. With a name in pencil on the front endpaper; otherwise, very clean and tight throughout, printed on heavy stock and very readable. In its original dust jacket printed in black and orange featuring a window-like compass on the front panel with colorful seasonal vignettes. With the original price of $2.00 at the top of the inside front flap; and a full write-up of Paul Revere Square on the rear inside flap. Rubbing and wear to the top and bottom of the spine ends and to the corners. Light creasing to the spine folds and flap folds. The rear panel, lightly soiled, features a photo of Louise Andrews Kent and a 4 paragraph write-up about her. Signed in blue ink, "Louise Andrews Kent" on the half-title page. "Wife of a loyal but fiercely opinionated husband, Mrs. Appleyard is impish about expected things, unexpected and sturdily, individually Bostonian. This is her calendar year, from New Year's resolutions to Christmas cards and shopping, what each month brings a new surprise." Scarce signed in dust jacket. Louise Andrews Kent(1886 1969)[1]was anAmericanauthor. She was born inBrookline, Massachusettsin 1886 and graduated fromSimmons College School of Library Sciencein 1909, where she was president of her senior class and editor of the college paper.[2]She became a newspaper columnist and author ofchildren's books,cookbooks. She wrote a newspaper column,Theresa s Tea Table,[2]in theBoston Travellerunder the pen name ofTheresa Tempestand later authored a series of cookbooks asMrs. Appleyard.[1]Kent, also asMrs. Appleyard, wrote a quarterly feature on food forVermont Lifemagazine for many years.[3]TheVermont Historical Society, of which Kent was a trustee during the 1950s,[4]maintains a collection of research notes,manuscript and typescript draftsandgalley proofsof her work. (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1941 on the title and copyright pages; no subsequent pritings listed.
