Island Garden by Celia Thaxter, Green Cloth (17 results)

Paperback. Condition: NF. Childe Hassam (illustrator). Reprint. Facsimile edition of the 1885 original bound in green cloth with gold decorations and lettering. Near Fine condition. Mild fading to the book's spine. The book is housed in a fine condition slip case. The slip case has a color paste down plate. Color illustrations by Childe Hassam.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. VG/G. Green cloth with beautiful and elaborate gilt decorations and lettering. Faint rubs at extremities, covers clean and bright. Ownership front free endpapers, otherwise contents are clean and unmarked, binding and hinges sound. Jacket is lightly soiled, damp stained on rear panel, price intact ($15.00). The author writes of her gardens on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hassam, Childe (illustrator). text clean and unmarked. binding tight. green cloth embossed decorated boards have light war and very light fading along spine. edges of pages have very light wear. slip case has very light wear. no jacket.

Condition: Very Good. 1989. 124 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Green pictorial slipcase. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal rub wear and creasing. Slipcase is scuffed in places with minor shelf wear to edges and corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Second edition (copyright 1894 stated), referred to in the Publisher's Note as the "popular edition", which was printed ten years after the first edition. This edition lacks the Hassam illustrations. Green cloth with gilt spine decoration and lettering. 126 pp. The spine head is damaged. the spine tail is a bit frayed. Otherwise fine in a tight binding with hinges intact. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Scarce. Green cloth cover with decoration in blind and gilt shows minor wear. Name of former owner mostly rubbed out on the front free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. This edition does not have the Childe Hassam illustrations that the 1894 edition had but does include a frontis portrait of the author, a couple of embellishments, and a plate diagram of garden and flowers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Portrait frontispiece and map of garden (illustrator). First Trade Edition. First issued in 1894 as an elaborate limited edition illustrated by Childe Hassam which commands a high price, this is the first trade edition with publisher's green embossed ribbed cloth, gilt spine title and design, and tissue interleaving to Thaxter portrait. A gardening classic, later reprinted in a limited edition. Clean, unmarked and bright. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hassam, Childe (illustrator). 1st Edition. Beautiful green cloth with gilt flowers; identical to the first edition published the prior year (1894); a very scarce book with beautiful color illustrations by Hassam; book slightly cocked with several small closed tears to top of spine; spine slightly tanned, covers bright text and illustrations clean and bright; an attractive copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover book. Condition: Good + overall. 'At the Isles of Shoals, among the ledges of the largest island, Appledore, lies the small garden which in the following pages I have endeavored to describe. flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer." Celia Thaxter [1835 - 18984] was an American writer and was popular during the late19th century. 8vo, 126pp, t.e.g., publisher's green gilt decorated cloth after a design by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Beautiful chromolithographic illustrations by Hassam. Covers marked, spine head and foot rubbed, internally very good though some marks in margins not affecting illustrations or text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Hassan (illustrator). First Edition. Color Illustrations; 126 pages; Elaborate color plates. Publisher's original green cloth [this was printed in both white and green cloth]. Floral decoration and lettering on cover and spine. Printing is on March 1894. Gilt pictorial cloth with darkened spine and stain to lower front corner left. Front paste down has attached a partial article by Helen Leah Reed summarizing critiquing this book, other relevant clippings atached to last two blanks. Printed on creme paper. 22 color illustrations with 12 chromolithograph color plates with captions on tissue guards. 9 x 6 1/4". The binding was designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman. The full page chromolithographs, after paintings by Childe Hassam, are "little impressionist masterpieces. " Lauded by BAL as the most elaborate book of the period. T E G. Portrait of Celia tipped to an early free blank. BAL 19923, garden plan facing p72. Title page in Pink, green with the yellow faded. No precedence established for green or white covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1895 Houghton Mifflin, green cloth hardcover with gilt decoration, top edge gilt, cover is lightly soiled, spine darkened, owner's name and date, blind stamp, envelope glued to front pastedown with ephemera, two 1980s letters about the book and an original photograph of Celia Thaxter, a few smudges in page margins, illustrated by Childe Hassam, all illustrations and tissue guards present, 126 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition. Illustrated by Childe Hassam. Tall octavo. White cloth beautifully decorated in gilt by Sarah Wyman Whitman (also issued in green cloth, the white seems less common). A little overall age-toning on the boards, trace of wear to spine tips, light occasional foxing, but a nice and sound very good copy. With the author's cut signature laid-in. The garden plan is present after p. 72. BAL 19923 which calls this one of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period. 1019 copies printed. .

ix, 126 pp. With pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam. 8vo, publisher's pale green gilt-decorated cloth, t.e.g., after a design by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Second edition. A beautiful copy.

Handsomely bound in the publisher's original green cloth stamped brightly in gilded flowers and motifs in the art nouveau style designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman. With light wear to the boards and darkening to the spine cloth which is also lightly flecked. The top edges are brightly gilded. Very clean and tight throughout, with the exception of a touch of foxing to the prelims. Printed on heavy stock with with all 12 chromolithographic color plates present and protected by tissue guards with captions. The wonderful, impressionistic watercolors by Hassam sparkle like floral vignettes throughout the book. A lovely, collectible copy of this classic. An Island Garden is described by BAL as being "one of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period". "Critics are usually in agreement that Celia's finest writing is in An Island Garden, a distillation of her abiding love affair with Appledore. There she planted, experimented with, and nurtured a spectrum of flowers, uncannily prevailing against inimical insects, fungi, and slugs, and fenced her blossoms against the adverse winds" (American National Biography). Celia Laighton Thaxter(1835 1894) was an American writer of poetry and stories. For most of her life, she lived with her father on theIsles of Shoalsat his Appledore Hotel.[2]How she grew up to become a writer is detailed in her early autobiography (published bySt. Nicholas), and her book entitledAmong the Isles of Shoals.[3]Thaxter became one of America's favorite authors in the late 19th century. Among her best-known poems are "The Burgomaster Gull", "Landlocked", "Milking", "The Great White Owl", "The Kingfisher", and "The Sandpiper".[4]Celia Laighton was born inPortsmouth, New Hampshire, June 29, 1835, but the family moved soon after to theIsles of Shoals, first onWhite Island, where her father, Thomas Laighton, was alighthouse keeperof theIsles of Shoals Light, and then onSmuttynoseandAppledore Islands. The gradual addition of summer visitors to the fishing population came slowly, Thaxter's father being the first to establish anything like a modern hotel.[5]The means of education were comparatively remote, and the permanent society of the islands for the greater part of the year offered very limited resources for a bright child.[5]During the period of 18491850, she attended Mount Washington Female Seminary inSouth Boston.[6] Her first published poem was written during this time on the mainland. That poem, "Land-Locked", was first published in theAtlantic Monthlyin 1861 and earned herUS$10.[7]In 1879,[8]Thaxter suddenly became known upon the literary horizon with a collection of poems entitledDriftwood, and considering that they came from a group of islands, away from the mainland far enough to prevent frequent communication, the debuting work was received with almost as much surprise as pleasure. Although stray poems of the ocean had been published, signed with the name of "Celia Thaxter", still it was difficult for the critical reviewer of Boston to realize that the bearer of this name was actually a long time resident, if not exactly a native of those isles lying off the coast of New Hampshire.[5]Her poetry appeared in theAtlantic,Century,Harper's,Independent,New England Magazine, andScribner's, while her writing for juvenile audiences appeared inOur Young FolksandSt. Nicholas.[6] (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1894 on the title and copyright pages and no subsequent printings listed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With color pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam, including twelve tissue-guarded plates. An early printing. Tipped onto the front paste-down is a single sheet with the author's poem, "Song: A bird upon a rosy bough." - written in the author's hand and SIGNED. Octavo, bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations, top edge gilt. Moderate shelf wear and aging, age darkened/foxed along the spine, two previous owners' book-plates on front paste-down (beneath the tipped sheet), newspaper article announcing a previous owner's wedding affixed to front free endpaper, else very good. Binding is solid. ; 126 pages.

First Edition, publisher's original green cloth; aside from some trivial spots, a fine copy. The book was issued in both white and green cloths, and later, nearly identical editions were also bound in these colors. According to the Bibliography Of American Literature, this is "one of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period." Slightly over one thousand copies were printed. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

First Edition, publisher's original green cloth; minor cloth soiling and wear; bottom edges of the last few leaves a little bumped and stained; about a very good copy. According to the Bibliography Of American Literature, this is "one of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period." Slightly over one thousand copies were printed. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.