Atkinson caroline p ed (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 2nd. Intro by Edward E. Hale. Ex-lib but very clean. Only bookplate to front paste down & lettering on spine. Black & white Illustrations. Top edge gilt. 472 pgs. Light rubbing and soiling to covers.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good -. No Jacket. 1921, 483pp, illus., navy cloth, usual lib. markings, slight rubbing & shelfwear to cover, slight soiling to pg edges, contents clean. Ex-Library.

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, (1919). Octavo. Second printing. Portrait frontispiece, 483pp. + [2] plates. Publisher's dark navy and gilt-lettered cloth binding; top edge gilt. Vignette illustrations. Two small nicks to edges of front cover; a near fine copy. Susan Hale (d. 1910) was an American educator, painter, traveler, and author of such as Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century and Young Americans in Spain. "Hale excels in the genre of the personal letter. [They] are notable for their distinct voice, vivid descriptions, and humor; many are illustrated with sketches. The protagonist is a sometimes flustered but always essentially competent, energetic, adventurous woman whose self-reliance and love of outdoor activities defies the stereotype of the parlor-bound Victorian lady." (Karen A. Dandurand).…