Author: GERRY, MARGARITA SPALDING
Title: The Toy Shop a Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket and the accompanying box. The front cover has a rectangular pictorial pastedown illustration, that has edge wear, rubbing and some beginning nicks. The bottom front corner of the book cover have noticeable rubbing. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is some light scratching to the rear cover of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page which features an illustration of Abraham Lincoln. ""I started to write stories because I realized that they were marketable products for which I could receive money", Gerry explained to an interviewer in 1917. Novels by Margarita Spalding Gerry include The Toy Shop (1908) , The Masks of Love (1914) , The Sound of Water (1914) , Philippa's Fortune (1921) , Philippa at the Chateau (1922) , and Philippa's Experiments (1923). Her serialized The Flowers appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1908, with illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Similarly, Gerry's As Caesar's Wife appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1911, with illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg, before being published as a volume in 1912. Most of her short stories appeared between 1905 and 1925, in Harper's, though some were instead published in Scribner's and The Smart Set. A collection of her early short stories, Heart and Chart, was published in 1911. Gerry also wrote a non-fiction work, Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body Guard to President Lincoln (1910)." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
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Title: The Toy Shop a Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket and the accompanying box. The front cover has a rectangular pictorial pastedown illustration, that has edge wear, rubbing and some beginning nicks. The bottom front corner of the book cover have noticeable rubbing. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is some light scratching to the rear cover of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page which features an illustration of Abraham Lincoln. ""I started to write stories because I realized that they were marketable products for which I could receive money", Gerry explained to an interviewer in 1917. Novels by Margarita Spalding Gerry include The Toy Shop (1908) , The Masks of Love (1914) , The Sound of Water (1914) , Philippa's Fortune (1921) , Philippa at the Chateau (1922) , and Philippa's Experiments (1923). Her serialized The Flowers appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1908, with illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Similarly, Gerry's As Caesar's Wife appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1911, with illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg, before being published as a volume in 1912. Most of her short stories appeared between 1905 and 1925, in Harper's, though some were instead published in Scribner's and The Smart Set. A collection of her early short stories, Heart and Chart, was published in 1911. Gerry also wrote a non-fiction work, Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body Guard to President Lincoln (1910)." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Margarita Spalding Gerry Abraham Lincoln President Abraham Lincoln Presidents
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 42815
- Book number: 42815
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