PENELOPE'S ENGLISH EXPERIENCES by Wiggin, Kate Douglas - 1900

MP3 Audio CD. Penelope's English Experiences Part First--In Town. Chapter I. The weekly bill. Smith's Hotel, 10 Dovermarle Street. Here we are in London again,--Francesca, Salemina, and I. Salemina is a philanthropist of the Boston philanthropists limited. I am an artist. Francesca is-- It is very difficult to label Francesca. She is, at her present stage of development, just a nice girl; that is about all: the sense of humanity hasn't dawned upon her yet; she is even unaware that personal responsibility for the universe has come into vogue, and so she is happy. Francesca is short of twenty years old, Salemina short of forty, I short of thirty. Francesca is in love, Salemina never has been in love, I never shall be in love. Francesca is rich, Salemina is well-to-do, I am poor. There we are in a nutshell. We are not only in London again, but we are again in Smith's private hotel; one of those deliciously comfortable and ensnaring hostelries in Mayfair which one enters as a solvent human… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Penelope's English Experiences Part First--In Town. Chapter I. The weekly bill. Smith's Hotel, 10 Dovermarle Street. Here we are in London again,--Francesca, Salemina, and I. Salemina is a philanthropist of the Boston philanthropists limited. I am an artist. Francesca is-- It is very difficult to label Francesca. She is, at her present stage of development, just a nice girl; that is about all: the sense of humanity hasn't dawned upon her yet; she is even unaware that personal responsibility for the universe has come into vogue, and so she is happy. Francesca is short of twenty years old, Salemina short of forty, I short of thirty. Francesca is in love, Salemina never has been in love, I never shall be in love. Francesca is rich, Salemina is well-to-do, I am poor. There we are in a nutshell. We are not only in London again, but we are again in Smith's private hotel; one of those deliciously comfortable and ensnaring hostelries in Mayfair which one enters as a solvent human… Read More

Cambridge, MA: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & COMPANY, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Charles E Brock. Book plate for Frances Dobbins. This is Volume 1 of a two book series. This book has toning in the gutter area top and bottom. Looks like moisture from the original glue used in manufacture. Otherwise pages are clean and bright. Covers are green with bright gold gilt in covers and spine. Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Brock, Charles E (illustrator). 3rd Edition. 3rd edition in a format not dissimilar to the Dent English Idylls series, reprint, 8vo, 174pp, line illustrations by Charles E Brock, bottle-green cloth sumptuously lettered and decorated gilt with thistle and rose motif border, all edges gilt; previous owner's book plate on front pastedown; a clean bright example with gilt intact and undiminished in luster; certainly good Copy. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American children's author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh… Read More

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London: Gay and Bird, 1904. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Charles E. Brock. A smart copy of Kate Douglas Wiggin's stories of the adventurous Penelope, illustrated throughout. Sixth edition. Illustrated throughout. Extracts from the commonplace book of Penelope Hamilton, a young American lady as she travels abroad to England with her friends Francesca, somewhat flighty, and Salemina, very sophisticated. Together they explore the British way of life. Written by Kate Douglas Wiggin, an American educator, author and composer. Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock, a widely published English painter, line artist and book illustrator. In the original green cloth binding with gilt. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot or handling mark. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpaper. Very Good

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. 1st. First illustrated edition with 53 black & white drawings by Charles E. Brock.. Half-page presentation signed by the author on front free endpaper. Bound in original publisher's cloth. Spine label chipped, spine and covers sun-faded, otherwise very good condition.

Gay & Bird, 1904T. hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. NOT an ex-library book. Well read with some wear but still very useable. 1909 REPRINT. FOXING on inside cover boards.