Author: RICE, Alice Hegan
Title: The Honorable Percival
Description: New York, The Century Co, 1914. Hardcover. 12mo. Grey/green cloth with ivory lettering and ivory, dark green and blue pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. 276pp, (2pp ads). Frontispiece, 13 full-page called-for plates. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and touch of age toning. A superb, tight and lovely first edition of this potboiler about (to cite rear jacket panel) "the intense and many-hued romance of a Blighted Being and the prettiest, wildest bit of American mischief who ever dared all the conventions and played havoc with hearts" -- and with the rarely-present dust jacket present and quite attractive. As if that isn't enough, a near fine heavy stock 3" X 2" card is mounted to the front flyleaf on which she's boldly penned "Very sincerely / -- Alice Hegan Rice --" on her personal imprinted calling card -- mounted in such a way that a precise flyleaf opening allows the imprinted "Mrs. Cale Young Rice" to be viewed opposite the half-title page (this side of card shows inoffensive old mounting traces). Very scarce in this form. Rice was a Kentucky novelist (1870-1942) best remembered for her 1902 bestseller "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch"; husband Cale Young Rice (1872-1943) was a well-known poet and playwright. .
Keywords: American Literature
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Title: The Honorable Percival
Description: New York, The Century Co, 1914. Hardcover. 12mo. Grey/green cloth with ivory lettering and ivory, dark green and blue pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. 276pp, (2pp ads). Frontispiece, 13 full-page called-for plates. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and touch of age toning. A superb, tight and lovely first edition of this potboiler about (to cite rear jacket panel) "the intense and many-hued romance of a Blighted Being and the prettiest, wildest bit of American mischief who ever dared all the conventions and played havoc with hearts" -- and with the rarely-present dust jacket present and quite attractive. As if that isn't enough, a near fine heavy stock 3" X 2" card is mounted to the front flyleaf on which she's boldly penned "Very sincerely / -- Alice Hegan Rice --" on her personal imprinted calling card -- mounted in such a way that a precise flyleaf opening allows the imprinted "Mrs. Cale Young Rice" to be viewed opposite the half-title page (this side of card shows inoffensive old mounting traces). Very scarce in this form. Rice was a Kentucky novelist (1870-1942) best remembered for her 1902 bestseller "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch"; husband Cale Young Rice (1872-1943) was a well-known poet and playwright. .
Keywords: American Literature
Price: US$ 95.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 42585
- Book number: 42585
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