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Verlag: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955, 1955
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Richards, Laura E., 1850-1943. Tirra lirra: rhymes old and new. Foreword by May Hill Arbuthnot ; with illustrations by Marguerite Davis. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955, 16th printing, xviii, 194pp., very good dust-jacket with oldprice label and shadow, very good blue cloth. Selection of rhymes and nonsense verses taken from issues of St. Nicholas. This new edition contains all the original illustrations.
Verlag: Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1920
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
Hardcover. Octavo; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, grey with black print; DJ in mylar, small tears across top and bottom edges, one-inch closed tear to front bottom edge; Boards in blue cloth with blue print, light wear to corners and spine caps, small blemish on spine, else clean and strong; Text block has slight stain to top edge, slight tanning to endpapers, else clean and tight; xi, 238 pages, illustrated (b&w). 1324857. FP New Rockville Stock.
Verlag: Dana Estes & Company, Boston, 1892
A Good Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Illustration by Frank T. Merrill (illustrator). Second Printing. Tan pictorial cloth stamped in black, yellow, white, dark brown with a design of a sea captain carrying a small child at the seashore. The bindings are tight and square. Some spotting in the text, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with soiling and modest fading. 8vo; 7.75 inches tall; 64 pages; Frontispiece illustration by Frank T. Merrill. Second Printing. Laura Richards wrote more than ninety books, many of them delightful morality tales especially for children. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1917, along with her co-author sister, Maud Howe Elliott, for the biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe best remembered for composing The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The book was the basis for the 1936 Shirley Temple film and for a silent film in 1924. Ref: Blanck-Penrod, 94.
Verlag: Boston: Dana Estes and Company, (1900), 1900
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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Hardcover first edition - First edition. A title in the "Margaret series" by this author. This is the story of a young woman, the daughter of an American father and a Spanish mother, set in Havana, Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Although Richards was best known for her many children's books, she was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography. She was the daughter of the doctor, abolitionist and philanthropist Samuel Gridley Howe and writer Julia Ward Howe, the author of 'Battle Hymm of the Republic." Among those wth whom she grew up in Massachusetts were the Hawthornes, and Louisa May Alcott and she travelled extensively, although most of her later years were spent in Gardine, Maine. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and seven internal glossy plates by Ethelred B. Barry. 246 pp. Very good in illustrated gold cloth boards (previous owner's name, some soiling to the covers).