Search Results: Titles starting with N from Priscilla Juvelis

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. First Edition. 309pp; green cloth, Sarah Wyman Whitman trade binding design with stylized flowering tree front panel, title in gilt on elongated trunk, the tree's roots enclosing the author's name. A tiny bit of rubbing to bottom of spine, endpapers sunned at edges, early owner's pencil signature on ffep, else a very good + copy. This is a selection of nine short stories about Jewett's native Maine. Published just three years before her masterpiece, THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS, these stories show Jewett as a confident and mature writer. Long seen as a minor voice of the local color school, she is now regarded as an American master whose writing influenced Kate Chopin, Willa Cather and others well into the 20th century. BAL 10902. Allen and Gullans, p. 103.

[Boston, Ma], 1865. Issued by Abby W. May as Chairman of the Executive Committee. Circular, 6" x 16-5/8", printed on newsprint, one side. Folded once lengthwise and then into fourths; 1/2" paper residue from small round price sticker (removed) at upper right corner (not affecting text), generally very good. Abby [Abigail] W. May (1829-1888), a prime mover in boston reform circles for more than 30 years, was active in charitable work, freedman's aid and women's suffrage. She joined the New England Women's Auxiliary Association of the United States Sanitary Commission in December 1861, serving first as Secretary. From February 1862 through March 1866 May acted as chairman of the executive committee. "In his capacity she received and disbursed money and supplies estimated at nearly a million dollars in value." [NAW] Issued after the end of hostilities, the circular looks to July 4th as the wind up of the work of the Auxiliary. May quotes at length, however, from a letter from the head of supply… Read More

Paris: Librairie Plon, Les Petits-Fils de Plon et Nourrit, 1927. First edition, one of 15 on papier de Chine de tete copies, from a total issue of 400. Bound by H. BLANCHETIERE in full navy morocco, edges with gilt double fillets, panelled spines with gilt lettering, doublures with panels of pink moire surrounded by navy morocco with gilt fillets, guards also of pink moire, marbled inner leaves, a.e.g., slipcases. Original printed wrappers and backstrip bound in, fine - a beautiful set. Paul Bourget (1852-1935) was a novelist and critic of penetrating psychological analysis. His novels, which describe the life of the leisured classes, almost always deal with a dilemma of conscience and/or some sociological problem. The moralizing tone especially evident in his later writings may be attributed to his growing Roman Catholic and Royalist sympathies. Perhaps because of this tone, Bourget's criticism is often now valued more highly than his fiction.

New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First Edition. 8vo; green wove cloth stamped in blind on front cover and lettered in gold on spine, pictorial dust jacket by Leo Manson, book very good with bottom of spine a little ruffled, jacket lightly used with some wear to spine ends, bottom edge with sprinkling of brown dots, ink name and date on inside front pastedown (covered by jacket flap). The author's first and only novel. Though her reputation lies in her writing on gastronomy and travel, M.F.K. Fisher is remarkable, whatever the genre, for her eye for the salient detail which illuminates character.

New York: Published for the Authors, 1854. First edition. Page size: 7-3/4 x 5 inches; 288pp; Bound: blind-stamped brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, spine ends shipped, bottom edge rubbed, tips bumped and rubbed, dampstain at bottom of pages of front matter though p. 85, about 3 inches long and 2 inches high lessening with each successive page, scattered foxing on first 97pp; pp. 265-268 misbound after p. 272; pp. 281-288 misbound after p. 288, good+. A travel narrative in the form of 52 letters by two women who financed their travels along the East Coast in 1853 as subscription booksellers, with accounts of visits to the pre-war south (Norfolk, Richmond, Raleigh) as well as Canada, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. They give accounts of the society they encounter as well as commentary on their reception as women traveling alone. They tread carefully around the subject of women's independence but clearly are in favor of it as shown by their own lives. Generally accepted as non-fiction and… Read More

Paris: Les Pas Perdus, 1952. One of 1200 on pur fil du Marais Trois Fleurs, from a total issue of 1250; 8vo; handsomely rebound in 3/4 scarlet morocco and marbled paper boards, spine with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., original wrappers and backstrip bound in, fine.

Canton, NY: Caliban Press & Wake Robin Press, 2015. Artist's book, one of 41 copies, all on papers that were contact printed using materials from autumnal gatherings, including fruits, nuts, seeds, flowers, leaves, twigs, fungi, and various metals by artist and poet, Velma Bolyard, signed by the artist / author, Velma Bolyard, and the printer / co-publisher, Mark McMurray, on the colophon. Page size: 6-1/4 x 4-7/8 inches; unfolds to 25-3/4 x 19 7/8 inches; 16pp. plus reverse blanks of contact-print paper. Bound: folded and housed in a brown or green or blue envelope, with matching hand-stitching and circular cut-out on front making visible title and artist's name which are printed on the lovely eco paper. After "cooking" her gatherings of natural materials in a dye pot, the artist separates rinses and presses them dry. They are transferred to paper by means of heat, water and pressure. The result: an herbal map of the artist's home and a delicately subtle surface with great depth. Ms. Bolyard's poem… Read More

Geneva: Jacques Quentin, 1987. One of 88 copies, all on velin d'Arches, each copy signed by Scheler and Bazaine. Page size: 9 inches x 12 inches. Bound: original wrappers housed in gray paper chemise and etui, fine. The text of Scheler's poem has been set in Cochin 20pt. by Francois Da Ros who also designed the special fold of the book. The lithograph of Bazaine was editioned at l'Imprimerie Arte. When opened the "pop-up" lithograph and text page measures 17-1/2 inches x 24-1/4 inches. Bazaine, a well-known French artist, has created a lovely page with the abstract litho interweaving with the text.

Paris: Editions de la Pleiade, 1926. First Trade Edition, one of 2,500 copies on velin du Marais, from a total issue of 2650; 8vo; 88pp; handsomely rebound in 3/4 brown morocco and marbled paper boards, spine with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., original wrappers and backstrip bound in, fine. The first edition was printed privately in a limited numer in 1922; the present edition was the first to be available to the public.