Mongomery James (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DUST JACKET AS ISSUED. JAMES MONGOMERY FLAGG (illustrator). FIRST EDITION THUS. SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE PAGES 433 - 446 ARE EXTRACTED FROM AN ORIGINAL MAGAZINE - VOLUME XLII. - 50. - OCTOBER, 1907. THE EXTRACTED PAGES ARE ENCLOSED IN A TRIM STIFF PAPER PROTECTIVE BOOK SELLER'S WRAPPER COVER. THE HENRY BLAKE FULLER TALE CONTAINS THREE B/W ILLUSTRATIONS BY NOTED ARTIST JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG. TWO OF THE FLAGG DRAWINGS ARE FULL PAGE AND THEY ILLUSTRATE THE TALE''S CHARACTERS IN PERIOD TURN OF THE CENTURY CLOTHING. THE TALE IS ABOUT A YOUNG EDUCATED FEMALE SCHOOL TEACHER IN A SERIES OF PERSONAL LETTERS TO A FRIEND IN THE UNITED STATES, THE LETTERS DETAILS HER TRAVELS THROUGH ENGLAND AND EUROPE DURING A SUMMER VACATION WITH A GROUP OF AMERICAN WEALTHY SOCIIALITES. HENRY FULLER EXHIBITS HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE CULTURE, ART, THE MUSEUMS AND WELL-TO-DO AMERICAN SOCIIETY AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. THE EXHAUSTIVE TOURING VENTURE THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND EUROPE CULMINATES IN THE YOUNG WOMAN'S IMMINENT BETROTHAL IN MARRIAGE TO A WEALTHY COMPANION DURING THE TOUR. THE TALE PROVIDES A GUIDED TOUR OF WHAT IS WORTH SEEING EVEN TODAY WHILE VISITING ON A SIGHTSEEING TOUR OF ENGLANDM FRANCE AND ITALUE.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 746 pages. Spanish language. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Fair. Reprint. Worn condition. Front board detached. Rear hinge cracked. Some foxing. Ex Cruising Association Library. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). xxiv, 566pp. 7 b/w plates. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards.

Half-Calf. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A group of bound novels which includes 4 Fennimore Cooper titles; "Lionel Lincoln, or, The Leaguer Of Boston" 1838. + "The Pilot. A Tale Of The Sea". 1839. + "The Spy; A Tale of The Neutral Ground" 1841. + The Last of The Mohicans. A Narrative of 1757, 1841. + Robert Montgomery Bird "Peter Pilgrim, or, A Rambler's Recollections". 1838. + Anna Maria Porter; "Don Sebastian, or, The House Of Braganza". 1839. All with separate title pages. The Dr Bird title we assume is a first English edition, 1st published in the USA in 1838 also. The Porter work was originally published in 1809. "The Pilot" by Cooper was NOT given a separate title of its own until 1838 in the USA, as it formed part of a triple title set, here it HAS a title page. There is some foxing to a few leaves in The Pilot. but still good or better the remaining titles are all firm and tight and very good. Bound in a contemporary half-calf with marbled paper boards, some light rubbing at extremes. Contents generally Very good, contents complete. * The Peter Pilgrim title has these headed short stories or extra passages also: "A Night on the Terrapin Rocks," "The Mammoth Cave," and " The Bloody Broad-Horn." The Arkansas Immigrants," "The Fascinating Power of Reptiles.". Anna Maria Porter was an early almost forgotten female writer who enjoyed considerable success in her early life as an author brought up by her mother after her father a military surgeon, died quite young, all the family were artistic. RARE.