1800s

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NOTES ON SELECTIONS:FIDELIS OF THE CROSS: JAMES KENT STONE by Walter George Smith and Helen Grace Smith, Glossy, tissue-guarded full-page frontis & Illustrated Plates, DECORATIVE SCARCE Original printed dustjacket, book and Dj both in excellent condition, Dj covered in archival mylar. Published in New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1935. BEAUTIFUL BOOK, WELL-PRESERVED. Deep navy textured cloth with large decorative lettering on front and spine with original blue dustjacket, showing a bit of wear and spine darkening, but as something that is usually thrown away, it is present and has done a wonderful job of protecting the volume. Page top edges bright gilt. Large book, 8.75 x 6″, 1.5″ thick. Illustrated. Book in excellent condition about like new, Dj with a bit of fade, a couple of marks on back, and a touch of wear at edges. Pages white and clean, no marks nor inscriptions. Bonus: Newspaper clipping of a wedding and notes on letterhead from St. Mary’s School in Maryland laid in. James Kent Stone: Theologian, Passionist missionary, in June 1866 was ordained an Episcopalian minister. The sudden death of his young wife, Cornelia Fay, whom he had married in 1863, and his long study of Catholic teachings disposed Stone for conversion. He entered the Church Dec. 8, 1869, joined the Paulists, and was ordained on Dec. 21, 1872. He was, however, attracted to a more austere monastic life and transferred to the Congregation of the Passion, taking his vows Aug. 11, 1878, and receiving the name Fidelis of the Cross. For the next 44 years he held office as professor, superior, master of novices, provincial, and consultor. Much of his life after 1881 was giv+en to the South American apostolate, erecting Passionist houses and preaching missions in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. He returned to the U.S. in 1889 to speak at the opening of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and again from 1894 to 1897, for a preaching tour. He was stationed in the U.S. from 1899 to 1908, when he was named provincial for South America. Please see photos, inquiries welcome. Religion, Spirituality, Inspiration, Self-Help. BABY SEA OTTER, RARE First Edition SIGNED copy, AUTOGRAPHED BY AUTHOR in Dustjacket, both book & Dj in Unread/New condition. Keepsake Copy, will cover with protective mylar upon request. Illustrated by Joan Paley. Lovely creative nonfiction picture book for children by author of Penguin Chick, How Animals Communicate, How Animals Play, etc. Baby Sea Otter is a book that Tatham dedicated the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sea Otter Conservation Program, combining factual information about the life cycle of a sea otter with beautiful illustrations. The illustrations of sea life are engaging and function well within the text. According to a review in Booklist by Karen Hutt, Baby Sea Otter is “Informative and entertaining . . . an excellent resource to introduce young children to sea otters.” TWO BOOKS NATIVE AMERICAN/WILD WEST INTEREST:1- Last of the Great Scouts; The Life Story of “Buffalo Bill” by Helen Cody Wetmore with foreword and conclusion by Zane Grey and 2- Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson are a 2-for-1 offering on the topic of the old west and Native Americans both in in very good to near fine condition, with dustjackets that are protected in archival-quality mylar. Decorative books with pictorial endpapers, clean, complete, tightt and straight, Ramona has a book plate on a blank free endpaper, Last of the Scouts has a lovely full-page frontispiece from a famous painting. Grosset and Dunlap publishers copyright 1884, 1889, 1912. Ramona illustrated with chapter heading vignettes an absolutely lovely fine tight copy with an included dust jacket. $0.75 on the flap, Scouts book with no markings, a bit of edge darkening due to age, slight chipping at dj extremities, both very nice copies. SEVEN-BOOK POETRY PILE – for the poetry lover on your list, even if that’s you: 1- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam – a lovely little book in excellent condition with original dustjacket, now covered in protective mylar, beautifully decorated and illustrated by Peter Pauper Press2- Contemporary poetry edited by Marguerite Wilkinson published by the Macmillan Company 1926 the modern readers series, half leather in green with gilt decorative spine G+-VG condition with lovely portrait photographs, pages are smooth and in great condition a book plate on front pastedown.3- Riley farm rhymes by James Whitcomb Riley Profuse and very lovely illustrations; the list of illustrations alone is two and a half pages long! Has vignettes and drawings and watercolors, pen sketches and is just lovely to read. Cover condition is worn but internally the pages are nice. Published by Grosset and Dunlap copyright 1905, “country pictures” are by Will VAWTER.4- Poems by Alfred Noyes Published by the Macmillan Company 1917 with an introduction by Hamilton WMABIE green cloth cover with GILT decorative spine card stock pages G+ to VG condition.5- Jacques Prevert by William E. Baker Book is in perfect condition like new, comes with its dust jacket which is VG, Published by Twain Publishers Incorporated copyright 1967.6- American poetry and prose contemporary by Norman FOERSTER director of the School of Letters published by Halton Mifflin Company copyright 1934 there is some penciling in this it’s the realistic movement theodore Dreiser edna St Vincent Malay ernest Hemingway etc blue textured cloth tall and thin with GILT lettering in bars to the front.7- Syntax and English poetry 1870 to 1930 book is in VG-VG+ Condition with owner name on free end paper and clipped dust jacket to match pages very clean book tight square. SET OF SIX GILDED MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY, LOVELY ON THE SHELF:The Prize winners, Grand Masters, and Super Sleuths, with Ellery Queen, Rudyard Kipling, William Butler Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Sinclair Lewis, John Galsworthy, Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, Bertrand Russell, John Steinbeck, Edna St. Vincent Millet, Louis Bromfield, Stephen Vincent Benet, many more. Gorgeous red bindings elaborately decorated on the front and back covers in gilt, spines have five raised bars decorative gilt medallions and lettering, volumes tall straight and tight if a bit dusty, bit of speckling top edges and an occasional mark but all in all pages are clean, white, no inscriptions or book plates. Contains many illustrations and chapter vignettes. Beautiful on the bookshelf and great reading, too.