Author: STOCKTON, FRANK R. (FRANK RICHARD STOCKTON)
Title: The Captain's Toll-Gate with a Memorial Sketch By Mrs. Stockton and a Bibliography
Description: New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1903. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The rear covers have a couple of spots of ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's name penciled on the front endpaper. "As this - the Captain's Toll-Gate - is the last of the works of Frank R. Stockton that will be given to the public, it is fitting that it be accompanied by some account of the man whose bright spirit illumined them all." "Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" (1885) and "The Bee-Man of Orn" (1887) , which were republished in 1963 and 1964, respectively, in editions illustrated by Maurice Sendak. "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963. His most famous fable is "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (1882) , about a man sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved daughter. Taken to the public arena, he is faced with two doors, behind one of which is a hungry tiger that will devour him. Behind the other is a beautiful lady-in-waiting, whom he will have to marry, if he finds her. ". Very Good+ .
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Title: The Captain's Toll-Gate with a Memorial Sketch By Mrs. Stockton and a Bibliography
Description: New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1903. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The rear covers have a couple of spots of ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's name penciled on the front endpaper. "As this - the Captain's Toll-Gate - is the last of the works of Frank R. Stockton that will be given to the public, it is fitting that it be accompanied by some account of the man whose bright spirit illumined them all." "Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" (1885) and "The Bee-Man of Orn" (1887) , which were republished in 1963 and 1964, respectively, in editions illustrated by Maurice Sendak. "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963. His most famous fable is "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (1882) , about a man sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved daughter. Taken to the public arena, he is faced with two doors, behind one of which is a hungry tiger that will devour him. Behind the other is a beautiful lady-in-waiting, whom he will have to marry, if he finds her. ". Very Good+ .
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Price: US$ 30.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 34532
- Book number: 34532
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