STEPPING WESTWARD by Richards Laura E - 1933

New York & London: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1932. Hardcover.

D. Appleton and Company, 1931. Hardcover. Good. This hardcover book is Good, being square and tight. The boards and spine have moderate wear with losses to the paper title label. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. There are prior owner markings on the inner board. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark. This is a strong reading copy.

NY: D. Appleton. Spine ends fraying, edges worn, spine label browned and scuffed, paper browning, some foxing, owner name, good. Inscribed by author. . Good. Hardcover. 2ndprinting. 1932.

D. Appleton & Company, 1931. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Grey boards. Blue cloth spine. Paper label on Spine. Corners bumped. Clean throughout. B/W plates throughout.

New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1932. ........ Cloth/Boards. 8vo., xi, 406 pp., Cover rubbed, frayed, toning, page foxing & toning .

NY: Appleton. G ex-library. 1931. "Have I any story to tell? I ought to have one; cradled, as it were, in poetry, romance, philanthropy; daughter of a great and . true of all mankind, a leader and teacher of the blind, the deaf, and all who are in "sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity'; and of a poet who, in her "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was to strike a note that sounds as clearly to-day as it did sixty-eight years ago. How should I not have a story to tell? And yet - but we shall see." Memoir of the daughter and philanthropist Samuel Gridley Howe and writer Julia Ward Howe, the author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic". Among those whom she grew up with in Massachusetts were the Hawthornes, Louisa May Alcott, and she recounts those early days as well as her travels to London, Paris, and Rome, and her later days in Gardiner, Maine. Prolific 19th to 20th century writer, b. 1850. Her reformer father was a founder and director of the Perkins… Read More

New York: D. Appleton, 1932. Hardcover. Very good/good +. 6 x 9 in. Cloth and paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, minimal shelf wear. Binding tight, text unmarked. DJ is GOOD+ ; spine toned with small open tear, a few chips. Mem. Stax.

New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1932. ........ Cloth/Boards. Tipped-In typed letter signed by the author . 8vo., xi, 406 pp., Cover rubbed, frayed, toning, page toning, bookplates, pasted in newspaper clippings .

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good+. 8vo. Pp. x, 406. Frontis. portrait photograph. Index. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs on coated paper. Half cloth binding in black cloth and gray laid paper covered boards, paper label on the spine with black lettering. Light stains on the edges otherwise clean and crisp. Dust jacket with chipped edges and damp stain over the spine. Autobiography of the prolific author, who was the daughter of progressive Samuel Gridley Howe and writer Julia Ward Howe. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival protector.

New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1931 D. Appleton and Company, New York. 1931. Hardcover. First Edition as per (1) on the last page (406) at bottom of text. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the FFFP in pencil dated 1932. Book Condition: Very Good +; slight shelfwear to board bottom edges; top edges are slightly toned. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($3.00); toning to spine; wear to flap folds; small missing pieces at head; light shelfwear to tips. Gray paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine; paste-on label on spine with black lettering over cream. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. [xvi] 406 pp 8vo. The author is the Daughter of Julia Warde Howe, the well-known author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic and of Samuel Gridley Howe, noted in his day as a doctor, philosopher, and philanthropist. Among the friends she grew up with were the Hawthorne family, Louisa Alcott, and many other literary figures of Boston, Cambridge, and… Read More