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By: BRIMMER, MARTIN; CHAPMAN, MRS. JOHN JAY (MINNA).
Price: $975.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Company: 1892
Edition: First
Seller ID: 2011
Condition: Good
4to (6 3/4” x 10 3/8”). pp. 86. Unsigned Sarah Wyman Whitman binding design in black on olive ooze leather of three stylized papyrus (Cyperus papyrus hadidii) stalks superimposed on the title (in Mrs. Whitman's inscriptional lettering) with the stems of the stalks forming the upright of the letter "Y", with a border of dash motifs.Includes a title page in red and black, color map of Egypt and the Nile delta, foliated initial caps and tailpieces all by Mrs. Whitman as wells as 32 illustrations after photographs by the authors; maroon eps.A collection of three essays ... View more info
By: GILDER, RICHARD WATSON; GILDER, HELENA De KAY, illustrations
Price: $350.00
Publisher: New York, The Century Company: 1891
Edition: First
Inscription: Yes
Seller ID: 1879
Condition: Very Good
12mo (4 5/8” x 7 1/4”). pp. 115. First Printing. VELLUM ISSUE INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE HALF TITLE. Unsigned binding design by Sarah Wyman Whitman in gold on vellum. Spine titles and decorations in gold. Includes 7 decorative illustrations by Helena de Kay Gilder; t.e.g. Inscribed by the author in the month following publication to Elizabeth Weston Stickney, a close family friend and wife of prominent New York attorney, Albert Stickney, who was a contributor to The Century Magazine, for which Gilder was the editor. A very good copy, wit... View more info
By: THAXTER, CELIA; HASSAM, CHILDE, illustrator.
Price: $2,250.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Company: 1894
Edition: First
Seller ID: 2320
Condition: Near Fine
First Edition. First printing. 8vo (6¾” x 9¼”). pp. 126.Unsigned binding design by Sarah Wyman Whitman in gold on bright green cloth of five upright wild roses (Rosa acicularis) with stylized stems and leaves terminating in interlinked hearts at their base on woven green cloth, with titles in a banner laying over the stems. Binding design repeats in gold on rear cover. Spine with titles and a flower bud with stylized stem and leaves in gold; t.e.g.Includes color frontis.,11 full page chromolithographic color illustrations, (each with captioned tissue guard) as well as tit... View more info
