Seller: Patrico Books, Apollo Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ships Out Tomorrow!.
Published by Atlas Pocket Classics - Atlas & Co., New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 1934633003 ISBN 13: 9781934633007
Language: English
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Back. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slip Case. First Editions. All three books are 2008 Editions First Printings and all three have the previous owner's name stamped with red ink on the half-title pages and again on the back endpapers but beyond that those three books as new. The slipcase has a couple of very light, barely noticeable, corner bumps. Diane Johnson's Introduction includes all three books and it is included in the Gleanings in France book. In this inaugural edition of the Atlas Pocket Classics series, Diane Johnson introduces three masterpieces of travel writing. Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey (201 Pages 1879) ,is the notebook he kept during his respite from poor health, tormented love, and inadequate friends a thoroughly entertaining account of the French people and their country. James Fenimore Cooper's Gleanings in France (361 pages 1831), one of his rarest works, is an elegant collection of his letters home; he offers a discriminating portrait of France in the last days of its final experiment with monarchy, and offers practical advice on the art of travel. Edith Wharton proclaims in the opening lines of A Motor-flight through France (216 pages 1908), that the motor-car has restored the romance of travel then sets off in the new invention to explore the cities and countryside of the nation she loved above all; Wharton's spirited account of her journey is a declaration of her passion for travel and her deep affinity for the people and places of France.
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 380 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.
Published by Arion Press, San Francisco, 2004
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Number 288 of 300 numbered copies for sale, signed by the photographer, Stephen Shore. This is an elegant edition of Wharton's masterpiece, The Age of Innocence. In her introduction Diane Johnson writes that Wharton was " the height of her powers. She never surpassed its portrait of the late nineteenth century America she understood so thoroughly and had left behind." The simplicity of the text's printing is juxtaposed with Shores 32 color photographs from the streets of New York and its architecture. Bound in brown cloth with a photographic spine label with titling. The book was edited, deigned and published by Andrew Hoyem. Letterpress printed on mouldmade Velata paper from Italy, using Ronaldson type for the text with Typo Script for display and DeVinne Outline for initial letters. The photographs were printed by offset-lithography on Potlatch Vintage paper. In a beautiful and colorful slipcase with a wrap-around photograph of a park. The book and its slipcase are in fine condition. Measures 7 x 10 inches. 309 pages plus colophon. PRI/100324.