Green Meadows, Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed on the inside front cover by the editor, Miele, the pages are clean and no tears are noted. The green pictorial cover has light wear along the spine. Inscribed by Author(s).

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Paul Chase (illustrator). First Edition / First Printing. Minor edge and corner wear, spine is lightly creased as well as the front of the wrapper, some light shelf wear, overall a very clean signed first edition! Inscribed by Lucy Miel (editor) on the title page! Illustrated green and white wrapper with white and green lettering. 48 very clean unmarked and uncreased pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "I have known Green mountain meadows; and swamps where blackbirds call; And pools where stones and water glisten In the bright, hot rays of noontime sun; and I have travelled newer, longer trails, Feeling the tug of packstraps on my back." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed By the Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Initialed and numbered by the author on the copyright page, 518/1059. Crisp, clean pages; no ownership marks; the full cloth cover shows only minimal corner wear, otherwise well-kept. 79pp.; Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Issued in softcover only, a farming novel set in Oklahoma in the late 19th century (from the Preface: "There were at that time no telephones, no Free Delivery, no gravelled or paved roads.'Dirt Roads,' which often were dusty in the summer, sometimes muddy, and occasionally impassable during periods in the winter and spring, were prevalent. There were no automobiles in this area, no home plumbing, no electric lights, radios and, of course, no T.V. sets. Some of these services were established during the time of this story. Transportation was by railroad, by boats, by horseback, by horsedrawn wagons, by carriages, and by top buggies. Homes were lighted by kerosene lamps. Water was pumped from wells or drawn from cisterns in some cases, except where there were springs. Homes were heated and food cooked almost entirely with wood used as fuel"). Signed by the author ("William Graf") on the title page. Covers lightly soiled. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. On front fly "Signed with rare pleasure by the author and illustrator Thornton W. Burgess and Harrison Cady. Done at Rockport Mass. 1954." Title page of first story is dated 1949. Title page of second story is dated 1948. The hardcover has general wear to cover, with a few crayon marks. Solid binding. Owner name and telephone number on front endpapers. No other marks inside. NO dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Manuscript on 3p. 4to, on the third page are 7 lines comprising an agreement whereby Major Genl. Wm. Green, Bart agrees to purchase the whole of Orde's interest in the above at the sum of thirteen hundred pounds. Signed by Thos. Orde and W. Green. Sudbury Green 23rd July 1792. with. LETTER, Friday 20th July, from Thomas Orde, presumably to Booth, the solicitor(?), saying he showed the property to Mr Green and his sister and they seemed pleased, but they would call on the Monday to finalise matters. with. letter to Booth, Craven Street, Tuesday 24th July, 1p. folio, saying he has settled matters with Green, and will leave the management to him. He wants him to obtain a plan that 'we may make out the Lease of Wm. Page's ground. I have told him 38 years.'. with. Description of the house listing rooms, 'Cold & Hot Plunging Bath' etc. 1p. folio. At this time Orde was Governor of the Isle of Wight. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include LONDON [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---.