Chappell Winifred (3 results)

Condition: New. Ward, Lynd (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. An American Pilgrimage: Portions of the Letters of Grace Scribner - Selected and Arranged by Winifred L. Chappell, Foreword by Harry F. Ward, Woodcuts by Lynd Ward, Signed by Chappell and both Wards on the front free endpaper, First Edition, Vanguard Press, New York 1927 Blue cloth stamped in navy and blind, four full-page wood engravings from Lynd Ward, 12mo, pp. xxiii, [1], 89, [1]; Poor condition due to pages 17 and 18 only being half present, also lacking two of Ward's wood engravings, else very good with light rubbing to boards, shallow tears to head of half-title and title pages, lacking jacket Grace Scribner (1882-1922) was a social worker and Christian Socialist activist who served as assistant secretary of the Methodist Federation for Social Service. She and Harry Ward served as co-editors of its primary organ the Social Service Bulletin. The organization supported the 8-hour workday; supported socialists, union activists, and conscientious objectors; and helped form the ACLU. Scribner died young in 1922 in a hit-and-run. [Dance 012]. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First edition, association copy. 89pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Blue cloth over boards. With only light wear to the extremities. In a dust jacket, with taping to the edges on the reverse (a bit of this taping is visible through the edge tears). Dance 012. Ex-libris Lynd Ward's sister Muriel Ward, with her bookplate on the front pastedown. From the dust jacket- "Grace Scribner began life in a lumber village, with little preparation for the bitter struggles she was later to face and overcome. After years of confusion and suffering she at last found the opportunity which enabled her to devote herself, body and soul, to her lifelong faith- the religion of humanity." Signed by Lynd Ward, Winifred Chappell, and Harry F. Ward (Lynd Ward's father - a Methodist lay minister, political activist, and cofounder of the ACLU) on the front free endpaper. …