Richards Laura E 1850 (6 results)

Richards, Laura E., 1850-1943. Tirra lirra: rhymes old and new. Foreword by May Hill Arbuthnot ; with illustrations by Marguerite Davis. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955, 16th printing, xviii, 194pp., very good dust-jacket with oldprice label and shadow, very good blue cloth. Selection of rhymes and nonsense verses taken from issues of St. Nicholas. This new edition contains all the original illustrations.…

Condition: VERY GOOD. Early printing. Novel of small town New England life, with Mrs Tree, a generous and kind hearted 91 year old woman in the center. A title in the "Handy Volume" series. Illustrated with a a frontispiece by Frank Merrill and three other inserted plates. Although Richards was best known for her many children's books, she was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography. She was the daughter of the doctor, abolitionist and philanthropist Samuel Gridley Howe and writer Julia Ward Howe, the author of 'Battle Hymm of the Republic." Among those wth whom she grew up in Massachusetts were the Hawthornes, and Louisa May Alcott and she traveled extensively, although most of her later years were spent in Gardine, Maine. Top edge gilt. 282 pp. Very good in gray paper-covered boards with a floral design in dark blue, signed JWR (that is, Julia Ward Richards, the author's daughter) with a light blue cloth spine. Name on front endpaper dated Christmas 1905.…

Condition: VERY GOOD. First edition. A title in the "Margaret series" by this author. This is the story of a young woman, the daughter of an American father and a Spanish mother, set in Havana, Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Although Richards was best known for her many children's books, she was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography. She was the daughter of the doctor, abolitionist and philanthropist Samuel Gridley Howe and writer Julia Ward Howe, the author of 'Battle Hymm of the Republic." Among those wth whom she grew up in Massachusetts were the Hawthornes, and Louisa May Alcott and she travelled extensively, although most of her later years were spent in Gardine, Maine. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and seven internal glossy plates by Ethelred B. Barry. 246 pp. Very good in illustrated gold cloth boards (previous owner's name, some soiling to the covers).…

Hardcover. Condition: VG orig. green cloth, gilt top. 23rd printing. viii, 123 p.: front. with guardsheet; 19.5 cm. [Original edition, Boston, 1903].

A Good Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Printing. Tan pictorial cloth stamped in black, yellow, white, dark brown with a design of a sea captain carrying a small child at the seashore. The bindings are tight and square. Some spotting in the text, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with soiling and modest fading. 8vo; 7.75 inches tall; 64 pages; Frontispiece illustration by Frank T. Merrill. Second Printing. Laura Richards wrote more than ninety books, many of them delightful morality tales especially for children. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1917, along with her co-author sister, Maud Howe Elliott, for the biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe best remembered for composing The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The book was the basis for the 1936 Shirley Temple film and for a silent film in 1924. Ref: Blanck-Penrod, 94. Illustration by Frank T. Merrill (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. HBDJ, (1894). Early Edition, Small Beautiful Beige, Blue Green & Black Illustrated Hard Cover Duplicates DJ Illustration, Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition FAIR, AS-IS,: DJ Well Worn, Slightly Darkened with 2 Larger Chips to Edges extremities & Spine Ends small Chips YET FRONT DJ Title, Picture & Author INTACT,Back DJ Fox & small Chips Extremities, Interior Nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, 96 pgs, .She and her sister won the Pulitzer Prize in 1917 for the Biography of their mother Julia Ward Howe, the social reformer and lyricist of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic.…