Sail River, First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co Inc Orange cloth with gold gilt lettering/borders, top edge stained orange as issued, 371 pages, color frontispiece and map end leaves. Some light soiling/staining to the spine, some abrasive wear to the corners, owner's name and date [Sept. 1929] to the first page of the story text, but generally a solid copy. Lacking the dust jacket. See photos clphE.

1st edition. Softback. Small 12mo. Colour photo full to edges, brown lettering in corner on front, brown lettering on rear " POST CARD ". Neat address + message on rear. Good stamp & postmark. Faint crimps to corners where in slip-in album, slight crease bottom corner, browning top corner, faint browning to rear, slight rub bottom corner else very clean with clear image. VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing] ; 2 p. l., 157 p. front. (port.) plates. 22 cm. ; LCCN 12040244 ; OCLC 3588110 ; LC PS3312 .E7 1892 ; lavender cloth with gold and silver ornate decorations; slight knock, slight wear ; white moire silk endpapers ; all edges gilt ; Contents: An Erring Woman's Love -- A Song Of Republics -- Worth While -- Coleur De Rose -- Memorial Day 1892 -- Life's Track -- When Baby Souls Sail Out -- An Ode To Time -- A Married Coquette -- New Year -- Double Carnations -- Swimming Song -- Regret And Remorse -- Easter Morn -- Blind -- Two Women -- As You Go Through Life -- The Yellow-covered Almanac -- Success -- It All Will Come Out Right -- The Little White Hearse -- Realization -- The Lady And The Dame -- Love's Supremacy -- The Paean Of Peace -- The Eternal Will So Insight -- Heaven And Hell A Woman's Love -- Reform -- To Another Woman S Baby -- Diamonds -- Rubies -- Sapphires -- Turquoise -- Memor's River -- "Has Been," A Minor Chord -- Last Love -- Death's Protest -- Duty's Path -- September -- March -- The Summer Girl -- In Sun Shadows -- Thoughts -- The End Of The Summer -- "He That Looketh -- Wail Of An Old-timer -- Concentration -- A Warning -- Was, Is, And Yet-to-be -- Mistakes -- Dual -- The Rape Of The Mist -- The All-creative Spark -- Be Not Content -- Action -- Two Roses -- Shrines -- Satiety -- The Watcher -- A Solar Eclipse -- The Depths -- A Suggestion -- Life's Opera -- Luck -- The Salt Sea-wind -- Never Mind ; Ella Wheeler Wilcox was educated at the University of Wisconsin and in 1884 began her literary career by contributing to the periodical press, and her work has been widely read and extensively reprinted. 'Poems of Passion' (1883) gave her a national reputation. Her verse has been widely published in daily newspapers. In recent years she dealt more and more with subjects pertaining to the higher life, the brotherhood of man, faith in a future life, reincarnation, etc. Among her other publications, in verse, are 'Drops of Water' (1872); 'Maurine and Other Poems' (1876); 'Poems of Pleasure' (1887); 'The Beautiful Land of Nod' (1892), etc. She also wrote the novels 'Mal Moulée' (1885); 'A Double Life' (1890); 'An Erring Woman's Love' (1892); 'The Story of a Literary Career' (1904); 'Poems of Sentiment' (1906); 'Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels' (1910); 'Sailing Sunny Seas' (1911); 'Historical Mother Goose' (1914); 'Poems of Problems' (1914); 'The World and I' (1919). ; One of three talented daughters of John Hall and Elizabeth (Farnsworth) Mears, Louise Mears was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1866. She spent her youth and gained her early education there, finding her niche as a young girl - drawing. She became known locally for her charcoal sketches of the local inhabitants. One sister, Helen Farnsworth Mears, (1871-1917) became a renowned sculptress, and the other sister Mary, (1870-1943) became a New York author. Louise Mears had a short career as an illustrator, especially noted for her collaboration with Ella Wheeler Wilcox on a number of children's books, among the most notable being The Beautiful Land of Nod, which was published in 1892 --askArt ; Born in Biddeford, Maine, Will Phillip Hooper received his art education in Boston and at the Art Students League in this city. His illustrations had appeared in Life, St. Nicholas, Harper's Weekly, The London Graphic and other magazines. He was a member of the American Water Color Society.contemporary name on front endpapers ; first signature starting ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A narrative of "the vessels and steamers which plyed to the ports of the Niagara River, and particularly of the rise of the Niagara Navigation Co. Considerable detail has been given to the history of the steamers 'Frontenac' and 'Ontario' because the latter has hitherto been reported to have been the first to be launched, and the credit of being the first to introduce steam navigation upon Lake Ontario has erroneously been given to the American shipping." - Foreword. xvi, [3], 10-198 p. Index. Excellent black and white photographic plates. Average wear to ruled tan cloth lettered in gilt. Tight and unmarked. A sound vintage example of this informative history, the author of which passed away shortly before publication. ; 8vo.