Holman matthews (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Original green decorated cloth. No dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910. A beautiful copy in Fine collectible condition. The binding design, although unattributed, is exceptionally handsome. It's simplicity, restraint, and elegance rival the work of Margaret Armstrong, Amy Sacker, and the other great turn-of-the-century book designers. Bright, clean, tight, and unmarked. Fresh and crisp. No owner's name or bookplate. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece by Harold Matthews Brett. The novelist, poet, journalist, and filmmaker Holman Francis Day (1865 - 1935) was born in Vassalboro, Maine. After graduating from Colby in 1887, he authored some 25 books, including: UP IN MAINE: STORIES OF YANKEE LIFE TOLD IN VERSE (1900); THE LEGEND OF FRENCHE'S ISLE (1900); AN EDICT IN MODERN ACADIA (1901); PINE TREE BALLADS: RHYMED STORIES OF UNPLANED HUMAN NATUR' UP IN MAINE (1902); KIN O' KTAADN: VERSE STORIES OF THE PLAIN FOLK. (1904); SQUIRE PHIN: A NOVEL (1905); THE SAINTS OF SHILOH: THE STORY OF EVANGELIST SANDFORD. (1905); THE RAINY DAY RAILROAD WAR (1906); KING SPRUCE: A NOVEL (1908); DOES PROHIBITION PAY? MAINE AFTER FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS OF PROHIBITION (1908); THE EAGLE BADGE: OR, THE SKOKUMS OF THE ALLAGASH (1908); MAINE FACES BITTER FACTS (1909); THE RIDER OF THE KING LOG: A ROMANCE OF THE NORTHEAST BORDER (1919); JOAN OF ARC OF THE NORTH WOODS (1922); LEADBETTER'S LUCK (1923); CLOTHES MAKE THE PIRATE (1925). . First Edition. Hardcover. Original green decorated cloth/No dust jacket. Illus. by Brett, Harold Matthews . 8vo. 353pp. Brett, Harold Matthews (illustrator).…