Silver Skates, Signed (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Inscribed by author on the ffep. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in., 251pp. Minor wear to board edges, light foxing to page edges, binding skewed yet remains solid, interior text clean. Dust jacket.

SIGNED by author Morris. Illustrated with historical photographs. Includes bibliography. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good, with very good dust jacket (rubbed along spine edges). ISBN 0960245413.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 251 pages, illustrated in b&w. "Mary was born Mary Elizabeth Mapes to Prof. James Jay Mapes and Sophia Furman in New York City. She acquired a good education under private tutors. In 1851 she married the lawyer William Dodge. Within the next four years she gave birth to two sons, James and Harrington. In 1857, William faced serious financial difficulties and left his family in 1858. A month after his disappearance his body was found dead from an apparent drowning, and Mary Mapes Dodge became a widow. In 1859 she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. Within a few years she had great success with a collection of short stories, The Irvington Stories (1864), and a novel was solicited. Dodge then wrote Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, which became an instant bestseller and was awarded a prize of fifteen hundred francs by the French Academy. Later in life Mary was an associate editor of Hearth and Home, edited by Harriet Beecher Stowe. She had charge of the household and children's departments of that paper for many years. She became an editor in her own right with the children's St. Nicholas Magazine, for she was able to solicit stories from a number of well-known writers including Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. St. Nicholas became one of the most successful magazines for children during the second half of the nineteenth century, with a circulation of almost 70,000 copies. Dodge died at her summer cottage in Tannersville, New York, in 1905." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. DUST JACKET PROTECTED WITH A CLEAR PLASTIC ACID-FREE JACKET. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Silver titles and devices to clean red boards. Hinges firm, corners sharp, pages clean. DJ has wear and wrinkles along top edge, nominal wear to corners, scuff marks up and down along the spine. Bit dinged up but still presentable. BP/Author bios. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. VG minus red cloth octavo hardcover in a good moderately worn and fully intact dj. Signed w inscription to James Jay Gould. Biography of Mary Mapes Dodge. 8vo. First edition. 251pp index photos. Lit history. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn. First Edition. 251pp. Illus. "The Life and Correspondence of Mary Mapes Dodge, 1830-1905." Presentation copy signed by the author. (loc 816/1). Signed Presentation Copy.

hardcover. first edition, association copy. 8vo 251pp. Biography and collection of letters of Mary Mapes Dodge, who wrote childrens books, known especially for Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, and for being the long time editor and contributor to St Nicholas Magazine for 30 years, publishing children's stories written byMark Twain,Louisa May Alcott,Robert Louis Stevenson,Alfred, Lord Tennyson,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,William Cullen Bryant,Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.,Bret Harte,John Hay,Charles Dudley Warner,Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and others. Gift inscription from subject's granddaughter: "To B[-] and Dick Ste[]us from Josephine Dodge Wilkinson grand daughter of Mary Mapes Dodge". #00804. near fine: mildest sign of shelfwear, else clean, square, tight. very good: edge wear/rubbing, NOT clipped.

1943 BRIGHT FRESH CLEAN HARDCOVER WITH COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS IN GREAT HARDCOVER FROM CHARLES SCRIBNER'S PUBLISHERS-FACSIMILE INSCRIBED BY MARY DODGE-SIMPLY GREAT!!

Pictorial Card Cloth Spine. Condition: Good (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. First Edition of This Edition. Browned paper edges. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Signed By a Previous Owner. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK.

First edition of the author's second and best known work. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Presented to Robert Dale Owen by the author January, 1866." The recipient Robert Dale Owen was responsible for introducing the legislation to establish the Smithsonian. He represented Indiana in theÂU.S. House of RepresentativesÂ(1843â"47). As a member of Congress, Owen successfully pushed through the bill that establishedÂSmithsonian InstitutionÂand served on the Institution's first Board of Regents. Owen also served as a delegate to theÂIndiana Constitutional ConventionÂin 1850 and was appointed as U.S. minister (Chargà d'AffairesÂ(1853â"58) toÂNaples. Illustrated by F.O.C. Darley and Thomas Nast. In very good condition with some dampstaining to the rear board. First editions are scarce, presentation copies are rare signed. New York native Mary Mapes Dodge had never visited Holland when she wrote Hans Brinker, but âevery detail of life and custom was so carefully verified by the author that the book was immediately accepted by the Dutch as the most faithful story of Dutch life known in Hollandâ (Meigs, et al., 191). In addition to the climactic championship skating race, the novel includes the celebrated episode of the young âHero of Harlaamâ who stopped up the hole in the dike with his finger and saved the town, a fictitious hero and event for which the Dutch have erected a commemorative statue.