Drift-Weed by Thaxter, Celia - 1879

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-09-12. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-09-12. Paperback. Used:Good.

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, light smudges to table of . contents.. 1894. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Forest green beveled boards. All edges gilt. Gilt lettering on spine. The Maine author's poems, including poems for children, in an edition published in the year of her death. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 152 pages .

Boston: Houghton, Osgood And Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1879. Hardcover. Covers sl rubbed, spine sl cocked, inscr & ink stamp on feps; Green cloth hardback, AEG. Vi + 152 pp. Colledtion of poetry; 16mo; vi +152 pages .

Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1879. First edition. v, [i], [1]-152pp. 12mo. Publisher's broiwn beveled cloth, a.e.g. VG. With a Xmas 1878 inscription on ffep. First edition. v, [i], [1]-152pp. 12mo.

Riverside / Cambridge MA.: Houghton, Osgood and Company., 1879. First edition. Presumed 1st. No print line.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Lower corner minor bumps. Else fine. Pencilled by prior owner: Lila, Thanksgiving Nov 27 / (18)78.. 1 152 p. Brown cloth over boards. Gold titles ornate w/ black outline and decorations. Spine titles stamped gold, spine end graphic borders. Gold page blocks, 3 sides. 4x6 in. 199 p. Beveled cover edges. Decorated title page. Audience: General/trade. Poetry, a volume that first brought recognition to author Celia Thaxter: 58 "Dwift-Wood" Poems (11 titled: Song); 15 Poems for Children. A compact attractive volume by one of New England's best-remembered late 19th century writers. She began her life living with her father on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire. He was a lighthouse keeper, then an inn owner, the first for a growing summer tourism clientele to the Shoals. Nature and the sea were themes that… Read More

Boston, Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1887 Hard cover, 16mo. (measuring 4 x 6 inches) in green cloth, bevelled edges, pictorial titles in black and gold to top board and spine. Glazed brown endpapers , all edges gilt, (v),152pp. **Inscription by Isles of Shoals poet Celia Thaxter on the ffep. in old ink to her Boston acquaintance and Appledore summer visitor, the musician/composer Arthur Whiting (1861-1936). CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Exterior has moderate rubbing to head and foot of spine, very minor wear to tips, some soiling; the interior remains generally bright, tight and clean with light toning (a bit of foxing to prelims) Hinges in order. ***Whiting visited Thaxter at her cottage home on Appledore Island, performing music in Celia's twice-daily parlor gatherings of fellow artists and writers. [A letter to her Boston friend Annie Fields on 31 Aug. 1887, available through the Boston Public Library's Rare Book Dept. and Digital Commonwealth dot org, enthuses over… Read More