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London: Groombridge & Sons, 1879. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Thus.. Original blue cloth on bevelled boards, elaborately lettered and decorated in red, green and gilt; yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Lightly scuffed, front free endpaper excised, otherwise a bright clean copy, good++. Contains The Burgomaster's Daughter by W. H. Kingston, The Rift in the Rock by Mrs S. C. Hall, Headless and Handless by Frances H Wood, and the following anonymous stories: Moffat the Missionary, The Sea-Side Home, Halcyon Days, The Northcroft Lilies, The Rewards of Industry. It appears that different versions of this book, with a different selection of stories, was published at different times; each story having originally been published independently..
Major Hall's Wife: A Thrilling Story of the Life of a Southern Wife and Mother, while a Refugee in the Confederacy, during the late Struggle (First Edition) by Hall, Mrs. Frances - 1884
by Hall, Mrs. Frances
Major Hall's Wife: A Thrilling Story of the Life of a Southern Wife and Mother, while a Refugee in the Confederacy, during the late Struggle (First Edition)
by Hall, Mrs. Frances
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Syracuse, N.Y.: Weed & Company, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Syracuse, N.Y.: Weed & Company, 1884.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
49 pages.
Good. Rebound in new cloth with new endpapers. Good binding; bookplate on front endpaper; pages yellowed with a few small tears; tears to title page and whited out spot; some wear to covers; chipping at head of spine.
Preface: "The thrilling experiences detailed in the following pages, are not imaginary, but incidents from real life. This story is a true one. She, who lived the reality, has survived to tell the tale in her own simple, unobtrusive though forcible language, without the alteration of a single word. Those who peruse these lines will wonder how a lady of delicate fibre and constitution could go through so much, and still live, When one views the plans she laid, unaided by a husband's thought,the happy home she abandoned for a wilderness of wandering, - the obstacles that obstructed her departure and seemed to settle in her pathway at every step,the difficulties she surmounted and risks she run, against the advice of friends, to accomplish her one fixed and determined purpose to follow the footsteps and fortunes of him she lovedthe father of her children, then, then indeed! one will get a new idea of the beautiful love of the wife, and the noble daring of the mother! Too modest still, notwithstanding all her achievements, to write the preface of her own story, she commits that task to a friend. I have read the story. I am silenced in amazement at the labors she performed, the privations she suffered and the ends she accomplished! But more than all, do I admire the wifely love which prompted all this. I can only say---read the story. A FRIEND."
An extremely scarce account of a Confederate military wife during the Civil War. None in auction records and not listed in most reference books.
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
49 pages.
Good. Rebound in new cloth with new endpapers. Good binding; bookplate on front endpaper; pages yellowed with a few small tears; tears to title page and whited out spot; some wear to covers; chipping at head of spine.
Preface: "The thrilling experiences detailed in the following pages, are not imaginary, but incidents from real life. This story is a true one. She, who lived the reality, has survived to tell the tale in her own simple, unobtrusive though forcible language, without the alteration of a single word. Those who peruse these lines will wonder how a lady of delicate fibre and constitution could go through so much, and still live, When one views the plans she laid, unaided by a husband's thought,the happy home she abandoned for a wilderness of wandering, - the obstacles that obstructed her departure and seemed to settle in her pathway at every step,the difficulties she surmounted and risks she run, against the advice of friends, to accomplish her one fixed and determined purpose to follow the footsteps and fortunes of him she lovedthe father of her children, then, then indeed! one will get a new idea of the beautiful love of the wife, and the noble daring of the mother! Too modest still, notwithstanding all her achievements, to write the preface of her own story, she commits that task to a friend. I have read the story. I am silenced in amazement at the labors she performed, the privations she suffered and the ends she accomplished! But more than all, do I admire the wifely love which prompted all this. I can only say---read the story. A FRIEND."
An extremely scarce account of a Confederate military wife during the Civil War. None in auction records and not listed in most reference books.
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Holiday Stories (1879)
by Several Authors: W. H. Kingston, Mrs S. C. Hall, Frances H. Wood etc
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The Story Garden
by Several Authors: Mrs S. C. Hall, W. H. Kingston, Emily Taylor, Frances Browne, H. J. Wood, W. heard Hillyard, Mark Lemon, Mrs Russell Gray, Mrs Brassey, Julia Corner etc
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London: Groombridge & Sons, 1880. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Undated, c1880. Frontispiece in colour and numerous other illustrations in text. Original brown cloth on bevelled boards; gilt panel on front board lettered in green, black decorative borders, pale yellow endpapers. Spine a little darkened with gilt dulled, small nicks to spine ends, chip to top left corner of spine, inscription (1880?) on front free endpaper, good. One of various "collections" of The Magnet Stories, each originally issued individually and unpaginated. This volume contains twelve: The Grateful Indian by W. H. G. KINGSTON, Fanny's Fancies by Mrs S. C. HALL, Purples and Blues by Emily TAYLOR, The Poor Cousin by Frances BROWNE, The Christmas Tree by H. J. WOOD, The Planter's Son by W. Heard HILLYARD, The Captive's Daughter by W. Heard HILLYARD, The Pedlar's Hoard by Mark LEMON, My Longest Walk by Mrs Russell GRAY, When We Were Young by Mrs BRASSEY, Lottie's Half-Sovereign by Mrs Russell GRAY &…
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SALMAGUNDI: BYRON, ALLEGRA, AND THE TROLLOPE FAMILY
by Trollope, Anthony; Trollope, Mrs. [Frances]; Hall, N. John
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Pittsburg, PA: N, 1975. Pp. xiv+106(last colophon), 16 plates, the title page printed in brown & black, appendix, notes, index; med. 8vo; qr. black art. leather, spine lettered in gilt, brown cloth boards, small fracture to bottom edge of lower board, top edge of boards slightly faded, spine lightly rubbed at extremities; tiny stain to top edge of a few leaves;Beta Phi Mu, Pittsburgh, 1975. First edition. Beta Phi Mu Chapbook Number Eleven. *Includes the text of a manuscript transcribed by the young Anthony Trollope entitled Salmagundi - aliena, 1834, which contains his mother's satirical poem about the burial of Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter Allegra, Lines written by a celebrated authoress; plus three short anonymous poems (two of which the editor suggests may even be Trollope's own). The appendix is Mrs. Trollope's verse drama Signs of the times; or, The righteous rout.
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The Household Book of Practical Receipts, in the Arts, Manufactures, and Trades, Including Medicine, Pharmacy, and Domestic Economy. Illustrated with diagrams
by Reynolds, Susannah Frances (Mrs. G.W.M. Reynolds), and William E. Hall
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London; Paris: Published for the proprietor by John Dicks; A. and W. Galignani, 1847. Octavo (25 x 16 cm.), [3], x, [1], 242 pages, printed double-column. Illustrated with small woodcuts of animals and food throughout the text. FIRST EDITION. "The whole book, it is hoped, forms a compendious Cyclopoedia for the tradesman, mechanic, emigrant, and amateur, as well as the heads of families ... advice of the best living authorities in all the departments and branches of which the work treats" (Preface). Some light soiling, a few small dog ears. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards are rubbed. A good copy. With the ownership inscription, "John Hartley Book, Feb. 28, 1849" and the small bookplate of bookseller and culinary collector, John Craig. [OCLC locates two copies (New York Academy of Medicine, British Library, Guelph); not in Bitting].
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The Household Book of Practical Receipts, in the Arts, Manufactures, and Trades, Including Medicine, Pharmacy, and Domestic Economy. Illustrated with diagrams
by Reynolds, Susannah Frances (Mrs. G.W.M. Reynolds), and William E. Hall
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London: Published for the proprietor by John Dicks, 1847. First edition. 8vo. (3), x, (1), 242 pp. [printed double-column]. Small animal and food cuts through text. Preface: "The whole book, it is hoped, forms a compendious Cyclopoedia for the tradesman, mechanic, emigrant, and amateur, as well as the heads of families ... advice of the best living authorities in all the departments and branches of which the work treats." Not in Bitting. OCLC locates two copies (New York Academy of Medicine, Guelph). Edges of a few leaves a little frayed, several leaves a little pulled, some foxing, but a good solid copy. Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards (rubbed), with new endpapers and some joint repair. (#5141).
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