Penelopes Progress Being Extracts by Wiggin (71 results)

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor. Wiggin went to California to study kindergarten methods. She began to teach in San Francisco with her sister Nora Smith assisting her, and the two were instrumental in the establishment of over 60 kindergartens for the poor in San Francisco and Oakland. She moved from California to New York, and having no kindergarten work on hand, devoted herself to literature. She sent The Story of Patsy and The Bird's Christmas Carol to Houghton, Mifflin & Co. who accepted them at once. Besides the talent for story-telling, she was a musician, sang well, and composed settings for her poems. She was also an excellent elocutionist. Her first literary work was Half a Dozen Housekeepers, a serial story which she sent to St. Nicholas. After the death of her husband in 1889, she returned to California to resume her kindergarten work, serving as the head of a Kindergarten Normal School. Some of her other works included Cathedral Courtship, A Summer in a Canon, Timothy's Quest, The Story Hour, Kindergarten Chimes, Polly Oliver's Problem, and Children's Rights Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PF. Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Charles E. Brock (illustrator). Pocket Edition. 12mo. original blue cloth gilt, teg (rubbed, slightly slanted, prev. owner's name to FFE, else clean, corner of final leaf torn); pp. xii, 302 (last blank), with numerous illustrations. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Small 8vo. Hardcover. Plaid cloth. 1st edition. 268pp. Heavy off-setting to 2 pages from newspaper clipping laid in, else good.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 268 pages, plaid pattern cloth cover with gilt titles. Corner and edge fray, otherwise, clean and tight copy. Record # 853329.

Condition: New.

hard. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Old waterstains back endpaper has affected few back pages. Handsome! very good, no dj, gold-stamped Scottish plaid cloth 268 pgs. Book.

Hardcover. Vintage Copy. Very Good in boards. Lightly bumped with some edge wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This first edition is bound in Scottish tartan cloth. It shows wear to top and bottom of the spine, tips, and some loosening of the back binding. Internally, the book itself is in Fine condition with no foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. Very good plus. Two volumes. Very nice gilt binding. Nice shape.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Red and green tartan plaid cloth cover in very good condition, with gilt on cover and lightly faded spine. Cloth has four small nicks/tears; at front corners and top and bottom spine folds, and a tiny bit of fraying at top spine band. Owner name and date on ffep. ( 1898 ) Very early edition. Bright, tightly bound and square. Lovely antique copy of this children's classic. 268 pp. Fiction, Childrens, Classics.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed and signed by Kate Douglas Wiggin on the front free endpaper. Inscription is hard to read, but I think it reads, 'Edina! Scotia's darling seal - All hail thy palaces + towers! Kat Douglas Wiggin.' No dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

hardcover. Condition: very good. 268 pages. Small 8vo, tartan cloth (worn, with some loss at corners, spine ends and upper rear hinge). Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1898. An internally fine copy with a lightly worn cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. 268 pages. The page edges show some age toning. The red plaid cloth boards are rubbed on the corners and ends of the spine. The gilt is bright. "FOURTY EIGHT THOUSAND" on copyright page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. 1st edition. VG book, no DJ. 8vo, 268pp. Text lightly aged, otherwise FINE inside. Author/title/publ info in gilt. Spine gilt faded a bit. Extrems w minor wear. Examine pix # 4 closely, call for additional binding detail. Very Good book, no DJ. Tartan cloth cover. All 1st points per BA.

LeatheBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 288. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1898 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 288.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 288. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1899 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 288.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 332. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1900 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 332.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 324. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1901 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 324.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Brock, Charles E. (illustrator). Two hardcover volumes in Very Good condition, 12mo, pages: Vol I:xi,176, Vol.II:xi301. Green cloth with titles and floral decoration in gilt, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, 53 and 55 illustrations by Brock in Vols. I & II, respectively. Each volume with a warm inscription on front free end-paper by Wiggin, "To Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell / With the author's love / & with many remembrances / of their friendly / hospitality / Kate Douglas Wiggin / June 1905" and in Vol.II, "We have traveled together / before, Salemina, Francesca / and I and we / know the very worst / there is to know about / one another / Kate Douglas Wiggin / To Mr. and Mrs. Weli?? Mitchell / june 1905"; Light wear to corners and spine ends, minor soiling, spine darkened, leaves sl tanned, Vol.II hinge starting and p.165/166 torn w/loss, sm 1 cm cut to top of spine, some pages unopened. Bookseller accession no.: 14731. Extra postage will be required for international shipment of this 2-volume set. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 278 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.62 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 278 pages. 10.00x7.50x0.62 inches. This item is printed on demand.

First illustrated editions, both copies inscribed and signed by Wiggin on the front free endpapers and Penelope's Progress with the title page additionally signed and dated 1901, and an autograph note signed tipped in. Penelope's Progress is inscribed quoting the first sentence of the book: "We have travelled together before, Salemina, Francesca, and I, and we know the very worst there is to know about one another" and signed "Quotation from myself: Kate Douglas Wiggin"; Penelope's English Experiences is similarly inscribed with the first sentence: "Here we are in London again, Salemia, Francesca and I" and signed "Kate Douglas Wiggin." The autograph note signed, using Wiggin's married name Riggs, reads: "Dear Mr Williamson - Here are the books and the signatures must have consoled you in your disappointment at buying old ones by mistake! I hope you have discovered that Chapters 8, 11, 12, 13 of the English experiences are all new. sincerely yours, Kate Douglas Riggs". These two titles are the first two instalments of the "Penelope's Experiences" series of British Isles adventures by American children's author Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923), all appearing prior to her writing her famous Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903). The series also included Penelope's Irish Experiences and Penelope's Postscripts. The present editions represent the first illustrated editions, bearing the charming line-drawn illustrations of C. E. Brock - evidently the text of the English Experiences was also expanded for these Brock editions. Penelope's Progress was first published Houghton Mifflin 1898, and Penelope's English Experiences was first published as part of A Cathedral Courtship and Penelope's English Experiences, Houghton Mifflin 1893. 2 vols, octavo. Frontispiece by C. E. Brock to each, and respectively 52 and 54 other Brock illustrations in the text. Original olive buckram, title labels to spines. Tanning to cloth at spines and around board edges, very small chip to top forecorner of first blank and half title in the first work, otherwise excellent copies.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1898 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 289 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 289.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 294 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 294 Language: English.