Edith Forbes Perkins (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2-volume set. In near fine condition with lightly tanned pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Edited by Edith Perkins Cunningham. This blue cloth volume has some small spots. Pages are bright with no marks, many uncut pages. Photo plates in good condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 272 p. : ill. (part. col.), facsim., ports. ; 23 cm. Subject; Perkins, Edith Forbes (1843-1925). 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 272 p. : ill. (part. col.), facsim., ports. ; 23 cm. Subject; Perkins, Edith Forbes (1843-1925). 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 4 volumes in bright purple cloth with gilt decoration; all four are sunned on the spines; tight unmarked with clean bright pages and tissue guarded photographs. Edited by Edith Perkins Cunningham, her daughter.

(Boston): Riverside Press for Private Distribution, 1931. Edith Forbes Perkins was the daughter of the great American mariner and China trader, Robert Bennett Forbes. As such, her letters and journals record family doings that were, essentially funded by the epochal investment of China Trade capital into American railroads. In 1864 she married Charles Elliot Perkins, nephew of John Murray Forbes, Robert Bennett's brother. (Those bluebloods kept it tight.) J.M. Forbes also made his first fortune in the China Trade and invested it in railroads - one of the first American entrepreneurs to do so - resulting, natch, in an even bigger fortune. Charles Perkins followed his family connection into the railroad business, and eventually succeeded his uncle Forbes as President of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad. Still more money! Where did it all go? Edith records 17 years of the distaff side of this family's adventures and, in so doing, has created a valuable social docuyment. Befitting her status as a classy dame, this is a beautiful and sumptuous production, printed for her by the Riverside Press, done up in purple cloth with tasteful gold decoration, and housed in a clasp-lock box of matching cloth. Inscribed by her daughter and editor, Edith Perkins Cunningham. Fine condition. Four volumes, 23.5 cm. Various pagination, b/w gravure plates. Edith Forbes Perkins was the daughter of the great American mariner and China trader, Robert Bennett Forbes. As such, her letter.…

rilegato. Condition: Ottimo (Fine). Ottimo (Fine) .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Four volumes. Octavos. Illustrated. Dark purple cloth titled in gilt, topedges gilt and other edges untrimmed. Each volumes with a small bookeller ticket ("Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Cincinnati") on the front pastedown. Spine a bit darkened and spines of the final two volumes with faint spotting, a near fine and otherwise bright set, in toned, about good glassine dust jacket with loss. Lacking the gift case. Volume I nicely Inscribed by the editor. Autobiography in letters of Edith Forbes Perkins, wife of Chalers Elliott Perkins, the railroad magnate who controlled the Burlington & Missouri Railroad. Contains much on the family's life in Iowa, and on travels in the West. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by the editor to American choral conductor, organist, and music educator G. Wallace "Woody" Woodworth on the front flyleaf. Lavish presentation of selections from the family letters and journals of Edith Forbes Perkins (1843-1925), a member of the Brahmin family long prominent in Boston. Her father, Robert Bennet Forbes, made his fortune trading opium and tea between North America and China, while her uncle, John Murray Forbes, was president of both the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s. Edith married a cousin, Charles Elliott Perkins, who rose to become president of the Burlington Railroad in 1881. Acquaintances of the writer Willa Cather, Edith and her husband are thought to be the models for the railroad magnate Mr. Ogden and his wife in the novel A Lost Lady (1923). Octavo, four volumes: various paginations with frontispiece portraits (one color) and numerous gravure illustrations. Original purple cloth binding, with decorative gilt stamping. A fine set in the original glassine wrappers. Housed in the publisher's cloth box with clasp, which is unevenly faded and a bit edgeworn.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4 volumes in very good condition. Purple boards with gold pineapple stamp on the front cover. Gilt lettering on spine and front board. Original purple box still with the books, but damaged and not together. Please reach out with any questions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine. Riverside Press for Private Distribution, 1931. First Edition. 1st Printing. 273 + 281 + 253 + 281 pages. Edited by her daughter Edith Perkins Cunningham. Purple cloth binding, gold decor, brilliant gold gilt on top end pages, side and bottom page ends roughly cut. All 4 volumes in glassine wrappers. Wrapped tightly in a large worn purple box. Nice Firm Clean copies ! Size: L 8vo. Biography 5926.…

First Edition. 4 vol. 8vo, pp. 273, 281, 253, 280. Edited by her daughter, Edith Perkins Cunningham. Illustrated. Purple cloth, stamped in gilt. Covers little worn, o/w nice. Contains information on Iowa, California, Wyoming and Colorado in the 1890's.

8vo, pp. 273, 249, 253, 281. Illustrated with photos. Editor's presentation on flyleaf of Vol. I. spines little faded, o/w a nice sret. A good picture of pre-WW I upper class life. (The Cunninghams owned the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, later the Chicago,Burlington and Quincy Railroad.). Privately printed, at the Riverside Press. 1931. Four vols. …