Butler thomas d editor (5 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Fair.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Boards soiled, first blank missing, title page soiled, some pages foxed. Contemporary photograph laid in. 1884 Hard Cover. xviii, 361 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles, black stamped decorations, all edges gilt, decorated endpapers. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marie was the daugh­ter of Fan­nie H. Bur­ridge Rad­cliffe, and wife of min­is­ter Tho­mas Da­ve­nal But­ler. When she was two years old, her fa­mi­ly moved to Cu­ya­ho­ga Falls, Ohio. It was there that, at age 13, Ma­rie wrote one of her first poe­ms, The Fall­ing Leaf, which was pub­lished in its orig­in­al form ma­ny years af­ter­wards, in the Christ­ian Stand­ard. In 1853, her par­ents moved to Wheel­ing, Vir­gin­ia (now West Vir­gin­ia), where her fa­ther died in a chol­e­ra ep­i­de­mic not long aft­er. Her mo­ther then op­ened a school for in­struct­ion in mu­sic, draw­ing and em­broid­e­ry, and Marie be­came her as­sist­ant. While in Wheel­ing, Ma­rie won first prize at the coun­ty fair for a ser­ies of pen­cil sketch­es. In 1857, Mrs. Rad­cliffe ac­cept­ed a gov­er­ness po­si­tion at a pri­vate board­ing school in Browns­bo­ro, Ken­tuc­ky, with Ma­rie again serv­ing as her as­sist­ant. In Browns­bo­ro, Marie's mo­ther mar­ried to Dea­con John S. Chris­to­pher, of Lou­is­ville, Ken­tuc­ky, and soon af­ter, Marie en­tered the Lou­is­ville Fe­male High School to fin­ish her ed­u­ca­tion. Marie con­trib­ut­ed ma­ny po­ems to the Christ­ian Stand­ard and to the New York In­de­pen­dent. By 1876, Ma­rie was liv­ing in De­troit, Mi­chi­gan. She was ac­tive in the Wo­men's Chris­tian Tem­per­ance Un­ion in her lat­er years. - Hymn Time. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. None. First Edition. A selection of one hundred quality etchings and lithographs by the foremost then living American artists, each print on a full quarto page of laid paper with historical description on the back, bound in Optak wire binding so that they can be removed for framing and replaced as desired. Tall 4to, quarter black cloth over green boards with ivory title label, unpaginated but with over 200 pages. A very well preserved copy, clean and unmarked.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 992 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.