de chatelain madame editor (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Hardcover. NO COPYRIGHT INFORMATION. Previous owner's name on front endpaper, dated "1931." Pages are clean and unmarked, moderately foxed. Covers show significant shelf wear with rubbing to corners and spine, discoloration. Book is very slightly shelf-cocked. Binding is tight, hinges strong. An excellent reading or reference copy!; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Stiff paper wrappers, printed in colors, now quite soiled with a loosening front cover, 5 x 4 inches, publisher's advert on back. The six stories each have their own title page; there are no page numbers, appx. 16 pp. each, or 96 in total. The text is generally clean with infrequent light foxing. Leavitt & Allen was at 379 Broadway from about 1855 to 1860. This little book is undated; date taken from the bibliography at WorldCat.Clara de Chatelain (1807-1876), b. & d. London, England. Born Clara Du Maxet de Pontigny, the daughter of a French gentleman and English mother, as a young woman she lived for some years in France. A very prolific author, she wrote for the English periodical press under the pseudonym Leopold Wray. She translated over 400 songs for musical houses, and "her books of fairy-tales included 140 original tales and 50 retellings of classic fairy tales; and she also wrote 16 handbooks." - wikipedia.