Edited by Edward Everett Hale (10 results)
Published by American Book Company, 1887
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. New York, 1887; illustrated gray cloth covered boards; corners and spine edges rolled and scuffed; edge wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Previous owner's name on front end papers; end papers foxed; Interior is clean and unmarked; 603 pages.
More imagesYoung Folks' Treasury Vol. XI (1909) - Golden Hours With the Poets - Illustrated
Edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie with Edward Everett Hale as associate editor
Language: English
Published by The University Society, Inc., 1909
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Young Folks' Treasury: Golden Hours With the Poets (New York: The University Society, Inc., 1909) is Volume XI in the famous twelve-volume juvenile literature series edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie with Edward Everett Hale as associate editor. This early printing features the cla…ssic Art Nouveau-influenced cloth binding in brown with black and green pictorial stamping, ornate gilt endpaper designs, and a vibrant color frontispiece ('The Pied Piper of Hamelin'). The volume collects verse by major English and American poets including Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, and many others. Organized thematically for young readers. This copy is clean and structurally sound, showing only light rubbing to the spine ends, mild corner wear, and gentle uniform age toning to text pages; binding remains firm with no writing or loose gatherings. A handsome and well-preserved example of early 20th-century illustrated juvenile literature and decorative publishing. Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846-1916) was an American essayist, critic, and editor known for his influential work in children's literature and for promoting accessible literary culture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A longtime associate editor of The Christian Herald and a prolific writer of literary introductions and anthologies, Mabie devoted much of his career to shaping wholesome, beautifully produced books for young readers. His editorial work on The Young Folks' Treasury helped establish the series as a staple of early American family libraries.
Published by Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1988
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Seller: Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980, Walpole, NH, U.S.A.Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980
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More imagesYoung Folks' Treasury Vol. III (1909) - Classic Tales & Old-Fashioned Stories
Edited by John H. Clifford. General Editors: Hamilton Wright Mabie and Edward Everett Hale
Language: English
Published by The University Society, Inc., 1909
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Seller: The Archives, Manassas, VA, U.S.A.The Archives
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Mabie, Hamilton Wright (editor); Hale, Edward Everett (associate editor); Wheeler, Daniel Edwin (assistant editor). The Young Folks' Treasury, Volume III: Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories. New York: The University Society Inc., 1909. First edition thus. An elegant early 20th-c…entury volume from the twelve-volume Young Folks' Treasury series, edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie and issued by The University Society in 1909. Volume III: Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories gathers retold and adapted selections from Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Bunyan, and other masters of world literature, presented for young readers in clear prose while preserving the moral and imaginative force of the originals. Includes a color frontispiece ('The Horse Flew Through the Air') with tissue guard and numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout. A partial contributor list notably includes Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, and Henry Van Dyke, reflecting the series' educational and cultural prestige. Bound in textured tan cloth with an Art Nouveau gilt-and-black design depicting a robed figure and castle; decorative gilt endpapers showing domestic reading scenes beneath radiant torch motifs. A handsome example of early-1900s juvenile publishing aesthetics. Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846-1916) was an American essayist, critic, and editor renowned for making classical and moral literature accessible to general readers. A longtime contributor to The Outlook and an early advocate for literary education, Mabie edited several landmark anthologies aimed at cultivating taste and imagination in young readers.
More imagesFamous Travels and Adventures (1909) - Young Folks' Treasury Vol. VI - 1st Ed.
Edited by John H. Clifford. General Editors: Hamilton Wright Mabie and Edward Everett Hale
Language: English
Published by The University Society, Inc., 1909
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Famous Travels and Adventures. Edited by John H. Clifford. General Editors: Hamilton Wright Mabie and Edward Everett Hale. New York: The University Society, Inc., 1909. Volume VI in The Young Folks' Treasury 12-volume series. First edition. A richly illustrated compendium…of classic travel narratives, explorers' journals, and geographical essays written for young readers at the dawn of the 20th century. Includes selections on Marco Polo, Magellan, Humboldt, Paul du Chaillu, and Charles Darwin, alongside a list of recommended works on exploration. Frontispiece in color ('A Public Scribe in Tunis'), additional tinted and monochrome plates throughout. Bound in brown textured cloth with decorative green and black pictorial stamping and gilt spine titling; elaborate art-nouveau endpapers featuring a domestic reading scene beneath a radiant lamp and open book. Condition: Near Fine. Bright gilt and crisp covers with minimal shelfwear; binding tight and square. Frontispiece retains its original printed tissue guard, lightly offset as issued by the publisher - a characteristic design element of early University Society gravure plates. Interior exceptionally clean and fresh throughout. A superior example of this handsome early University Society binding. Edition/Printing: Copyright 1909 by The University Society, Inc. First printing of this volume; no later or revised printings noted. Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846-1916) was a distinguished essayist, critic, and lecturer, long associated with The Outlook magazine. His editorial work on the Young Folks' Treasury series shaped American family reading and moral education during the Progressive Era. Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), Unitarian minister and author of The Man Without a Country, served as associate editor. A noted humanitarian and essayist, he promoted moral instruction and literacy through his writings and editorial projects. John H. Clifford, volume editor, contributed several educational compilations for The University Society's children's and civic reading programs.
Published by Haldeman-Julius Company 0, Girard, Kansas
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good -. Normal scuffs, light edge darkening, etc. A decent copy. Book.
Published by The Miller Publishing Company, Minneapolis, 1920
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Half white cloth with printed paper spine label, papercovered boards. Illustrated by R. Caton Woodville, Howard Pyle and Frank X. Leyendecker. Very good with hinges cracked, pages lightly age-toned, corners worn. Scarce.
General Sir William Howe's Orderly Book At Charlestown, Boston, and Halifax June 17 1775 to 1776 26 May To Which is Added the Official Abridgment of General Howe's Correspondence with the English Government During the Siege of Boston, and Some Military Returns and is Now First Printed from the Original Manuscripts .
Stevens. Benjamin Franklin (Collected and edited by) ; Introduction by Hale, Edward Everett
Published by Benjamin Franklin Stevens, London, 4 Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross, 1890
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Seller: Catnap Books, Cobleskill, NY, U.S.A.Catnap Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition; First Printing. Brown publisher's cloth with gold lettering and design stamped on spine. The covers are a bit worn, with slight loss of cloth at corners and bottom edge and a bit of scuffing and wear. Top edge gilt, untrimmed fore edges.… The spine is slightly cocked. Brown paste-downs and free endpapers. Sewn textblock, with a split after the endpapers and first leaf. The text is still tight with no loose pages. Previous owner's name is written, in ink, on second end paper. Considerable foxing to the end papers with slight foxing and staining to some of the pages in the text. Despite the stated flaws, this is a nice copy of a hard to find original edition. ; Seventeen page introduction by Edward Hale, giving a brief history of Howe's command of the British Army during the siege of Boston. The book consists of the précis of correspondance with General Howe taken from from vol. 290 America and West India series of manuscripts in Her Majesty's Public record office and covers the period of time from Howe's attack on Bunker and Breed's Hills, the British evacuation of Boston in March 1776 and his retreat to Halifax. Scarce original edition ; no illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xix, 357 p. pages.
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