Susan Coolidge: Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Flat Signed (signature only, no inscription) by author on page facing title page in black marker. Images available upon request. Providing superior service since 2001. Dropshippers heartily welcomed. Susan Coolidge (illustrator). Signed by Author.

Illustrated by Color frontis and 7 tipped in plates by Elsie Anna Wood and one topboard . Early edition. c.1872 First Book of Katy Trio. Green cloth backed paper boards with color paste-on. Signed by Wood, Elsie Anna (1887-1978). 4to. pp. 64. Very Good. Light binding wear, bumps and soil. Cleaned and corners repaired by our in-house binder KTB with proprietary sealant. Translated into 7 languages, the former Civil War Nurse, wrote 33 additional books and submitted 14 stories for various periodicals.…

Condition: Fine. - Sarah Chauncey Woolsey's and Adams Sherman Hill's autographs penned together with those of Elizabeth B. Brown's and Ms. Susie Hutchins' on a 3 inch high by 4-1/8 inch wide piece of paper clipped from a daily birthday book calendar with the date "January 30" printed in red along the top Signed "Sarah C. Woolsey" and "A.S. Hill" . Several lines from an inspirational poem are printed in black on the verso. Near fine. The American children's author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905) served as a nurse during the Civil War after which she started to write under the pen name Susan Coolidge. She is best known for her classic children's novel "What Katy Did".The American newspaper journalist and rhetorician Adams Sherman Hill (1833-1910) was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard University. He is best known for his works "The Principles of Rhetoric", "Foundations of Rhetoric" and "Our English".…

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. This is an original autograph letter signed (ALS) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1832-1905), the famous American children's author who wrote under the pen name "Susan Coolidge." She is best remembered for her classic, widely beloved 1872 novel What Katy Did, which was modeled on her own childhood and family. Letters signed with her given legal name (rather than her famous pseudonym) are excellent additions to collections of 19th-century American women writers. Writing from North East Harbor (a popular summer colony in Maine), Woolsey addresses a "Mrs. Loring"—likely the wife of Civil War Union General Charles Greely Loring. The letter is highly conversational and deeply sympathetic, as Woolsey has just learned of a string of "four months of misfortune" to hit the Loring family. She expresses shock that she hadn't heard of "General Loring's illness," an accident, "your nose, nor Bob's illness," especially since the last time she saw Mrs. Loring, she was "a vision of long hair and pearls and old brocade." Woolsey tells Mrs. Loring she would understand if she didn't want visitors unless it was "the Angel with the nepenthe cup to make you forget all you have suffered," but outlines her upcoming autumn travel plans through Bethlehem and Newport just in case she can visit. She playfully scolds Mrs. Loring for not having herself immortalized in a photograph or painting while in her beautiful costume before she supposedly injured her "pretty nose." It is a warm, witty, and charming piece of correspondence from a beloved author. Complete English Transcription North East Harbor August 30 My dear Mrs Loring I had never heard of General Loring's illness, nor [Reuter's?] accident, nor your nose, nor Bob's illness, nor anything else since I saw you last, a vision of long hair and pearls and old brocade; and I am appalled at the thought of how many things can happen in three months without the rumor of them coming to me. - I should think you would not want any one to come near you this autumn, unless it were the Angel with the nepenthe cup to make you forget all you have suffered; but if you really are so good, I shall look forward to a dear little scrap of a visit at the end of September. We stay here till the 15th, then we go to Bethlehem where Mrs. [Gurley?] and her brood have betaken themselves and after a while with them I shall come wandering Southward, with the fond hope that the [Evans?] may feel like leaving Newport right and early in October, as they did last year, and in the interval of waiting, I will come to you if you like as well as to Mrs Whitmore who has just written with the same kind suggestion. I do hope your pretty nose has not really suffered by the fall. Why - oh why, didn't you go the day after the reception, and be immortalized in your costume, and put forever beyond a peradventure at one of the prettiest moments of your life? Perhaps you did. Meanwhile I hope all is going well for a long time to make you forget this four months of misfortune. Please give my love to the General and the children and with my sister's kind regards added to my own, believe me Yours affectionately Sarah C. Woolsey. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condition: Good. First edition. A signed presentation copy of the final entry in Susan Coolidge's 'What Katy Did' series. Works signed by the author are exceptionally scarce. A signed first edition of the fifth and final novel in the authors beloved 'What Katy Did' series.Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper: 'George Allen W. Baene with love from S.W., Christmas 1891'.Beneath this is a contemporary ink inscription, reading 'S.W. is Susan Coolidge and the above serves as an autograph. Alice M. Baene, Christmas 1891'.Susan Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge.Beginning in 1872, she wrote five children's novels about Katy and the fictional Carr family, with the family modelled after her own relations, and Katye based on the author herself.With sixteen pages of advertisements to the rear.Signed works by the author are vanishingly scarce. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Fading to back strip, with significant handling marks to boards. Rear joint starting to tail, and slightly tender. Author's inscription and former owner's inscription to a front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with instances of light spotting. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). signed by author. book.…