Stern, Madeleine B.

Louisa May Alcott

London, Peter Nevill Limited, 1952. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if very lightly toned interior minimal rubbing to extremities. Raspberry-colored cloth over boards, sharp and distinct black lettering to spine. The noted bookseller's fine and accessible biography of the author of Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys and other classics. 424 pp. and with full notes and index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

-- Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessionele verkoper

Boeknummer: 355970

Catalogus: Biography

Trefwoorden: Madeleine B. Stern literary biography

Wilson, James

Biography of the Blind, Including the Lives of All Those, from Homer Down to the Present Day, Who Have Distinguished Themselves As Poets, Philosophers, Artists, &C. &C. To Which Is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author

Belfast, Ireland, D Lyons, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. An apparent First Edition and quite scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available on-line currently, and only half a dozen copies available in libraries, worldwide. Printed for the author by D. Lyons, 25 Smithfield, Belfast, Ireland, 1821. Page of Dedication invokes "the Ladies Directresses of the Molyneaux Asylum for Blind Females. The author was blind from infancy, too. Neatly and professionally rebound, perhaps incorporating the original marbled papers over boards, tips and spine finely rebacked in calf leather, stamped fleurs-de-lis to spine, gilt lettered titles there. Lightly and evenly foxed throughout, previous owner's penciled collation and other notes at first two endpapers, else clean and still fairly bright. Two-page name index at rear. xi [1], 324 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

-- Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessionele verkoper

Boeknummer: 355884

Catalogus: Biography

Trefwoorden: James Wilson blindness biography