COMPANIONABLE BOOKS by VAN Dyke, Henry - 1922

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1922-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fair hardcover. No DJ. Text unmarked.Pages are tanned with minor foxing. Covers show edge wear with rubbings/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Hinges cracked but binding still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1922, 1922. Hardcover. Fair/No Dj. 12 mo., hardcover, ornate blue pictorial, embossed boards. Broken hinges, crayon scribbling on back inside cover, else a good reading copy. 391 deckled pages. Eight portrait plates are in wonderful, framable, condition. Essays about books "that are worth taking with you on a journey, where the weight of luggage counts, or keeping beside your bed, near the night-lamp; books that will bear reading often, and the more slowly you read them the better you enjoy them..." Included are The Book of Psalms, and references to works of Samuel Johnson. Wordsworth, Izaak Walton, Emerson and more.

Independently published, 2021-08-28. Paperback. Used: Good.

Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. Hinges starting/looseness in the binding; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 391 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Hardcover. Good condition, bottom of cover dented, spine faded. 391p., illus. Margaret Armstrong binding.

hardback. Very Good. Frontis. Reprint. NY (Scribner) 1924. A very good copy.

Arden Library, 1922-06. Textbook Binding. Good.

Companionable Books, by Henry Van Dyke. From the preface: "by companionable books I mean those that are worth taking with you on a journey, where the weight of luggage counts, or keeping beside your bed, near the night-lamp; books that will bear reading often, and the more slowly you read them the better you enjoy them... Here I have written about a few of these books which have borne me good company, in one way or another, - and about their authors, who have put the best of themselves into their work."

New York.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First edition. . Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Front binding is weakening after title page. Spine titles dulled. Back cover surface dent, finish damage.. Armstrong, Margaret (Cover design by).. 1 Dark blue decorated cloth over boards. ix, 391 p. 20 cm. Includes 8 B&W Portraits, plates w/ artist credits. Anthology of remarks about books and authors Van Dyke considers to take the reader on a journey The Book of Books (The Bible); Poetry in the Psalms; The Good Enchantment of Dickens; Thackeray and Real Men; George Eliot and Real Women; The Poet of Immortal Youth (Keats); The Recovery of Joy (Wordsworth); "The Glory of the Imperfect" (Browning); "A Quaint Comrade by Quiet Streams" (Walton); "A Sturdy Believer" (Samuel Johnson); "A Puritan plus Poetry" (Emerson); "An Adventurer in a Velvet Jacket" (Stevenson). Cover has combination of symbols in gold and aqua:… Read More

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Later prtg.. Owner's name in pencil on front end paper. Light browning to end papers and pastedowns. Bit of shelf wear & chipping to paper label on spine. VG..