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Kate Douglas Wiggin. PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES. Gay and Bird, LonDON, 1901.
Price: US$6.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Pages are clean,bright and tight. Minimal wear to book. Attractive green boards.Neat inscription on f.e.p.
Seller: September Books, CHURCH STRETTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.61 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3rd edition in a format not disimilar to the Dent English Idylls series, reprint, 8vo, 174pp, line illustrations by C 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 and her name repeated on ffep o/w a clean bright example with gilt intact and undiminished in lustre; certainly VG 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 descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the "Silver Street Free Kindergarten"). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. For a time, she lived in Buxton, Maine, which inspired her book (and later play) The Old Peabody Pew. She is now mainly known as a writer of children's books, the best known being The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903). C E Brock of course was an illustrator of great reknown and popularity that has endured until today. This volume is a perfect marriage of talents made all the more successful by the fine example of book production common around the turn of the last century Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Roger Lucas Booksellers, Horncastle, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Description: Book condition: Good+. Reprint. Green cloth boards with ornate bright gilt decoration to front and spine. Hinges just starting to crack and binding slightly loose at front and rear. Spine ends rubbed with small cloth splits, corners rubbed. All edges gilt. Black endpapers. W. H. Smith & Son embossed label to front endpaper. Small ink mark to top of back board. Content clean and bright. Not ex-library. 301pp plus publishers 16 page catalogue. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.
Seller: Soin2Books, Kidderminster, WORCS, United Kingdom
Kate Douglas Wiggin. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Gay and Bird, London, 1901.
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Lovely early edition, green cloth with harp and shamrock decoration in black and gold. Shamrock embellished endpapers. Inscription on half-title and page edges very slightly foxed otherwise near fine.
Seller: Johnston's Arran Bookroom, Isle of Arran, United Kingdom
Kate Douglas Wiggin. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Gay and Bird, London, 1901.
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good book in very clean fresh green cloth covers with gilt titles to spine and front; gilt and black harp and shamrock title panel to front and gilt harp to spine. Internally very good and free of inscriptions; binding tight; some scattered foxing but faint and not obtrusive; end papers decorated with a green and white shamrock pattern. A very crisp copy.
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: x 301p green cloth elaborately gilt, all edges gilt, illustrated by C E Brock, a very nice copy Language: English
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. PENELOPE'S ENGLISH EXPERIENCES. Gay and Bird, 1901.
Price: US$16.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1901. Very good condition with no wrapper. Dark green boards, gilt titles and thistle decorations. Title to covers is 'Penelope's Experiences England'. Being extracts from the commonplace book of Penelope Hamilton. All edges gilt. B/w illustrations. 174 pages plus book list. Light bumping to spine and corners. Bookplate to front pastedown. A few light margin marks. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$17.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dust jacket. Hardcover. Good condition. One or two minor marks and scores on boards. Spine is slightly cocked. Spine ends are a little worn and bumped. Slight wear on leading corners. Binding is a little loose at front and rear. One or two marks on pages. Contents are clear. AF
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$30.70 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description: viii, 343, [1]p. ; 19cm. Subjects: Ireland -- Social life and customs. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
WIGGIN Kate Douglas. A Cathedral Courtship. Gay & Bird 1901 (first thus), 1901.
Price: US$30.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: original decorated cloth, spine bumped, illustrated by Charles E Brock, advertisement leaves, all edges gilt, very good. authors presentation pasted to front free endpaper: To Captain Browne:/ Souvenir of a de-/ lightful little voyage./ Kate Douglas Wiggin/ May 7th 1908; from the library of George Fleming with his book label front pastedown; originally published 1893 with Penelopes English Experiences; 96 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Kate Douglas Wiggin. Penelope's Experiences in Scotland. Gay and Bird, 1901.
Price: US$34.58 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Being Extracts from the commonplace book of Penelope Hamilton. Gilt titles and gilt decorations. Clean ,fresh and tight copy. 1901 Thirteenth Esition
Seller: PETER FRY (PBFA), Grange- over -Sands, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1901. Gay and Bird. Hardback. VERY GOOD Green board, gold title, gold decoration on cover and spine, gold gilt page edges, internally and externally good, spine tight, pages clean, black and white illustrations, previous owners sticker on first page, binding coming loose at front cover, shelf worn, excellent condition for age, 7.5' x 5'
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$43.60 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description: viii, 343, [1]p. ; 19cm. Subjects: Ireland -- Social life and customs. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$53.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1901. Gay and Bird. Hardcover. GOOD Gilt titles, green boards with gilt decoration. Clean pages with black and white illustrations. AEG. 7x5
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Experiences in Scotland. Gay & Bird, 1901.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The twelfth edition of this classic tale and notable here for the fact that the book still retains its dustwrapper. The book itself (301pp plus 16pp ads, a.e.g.) is bound in green cloth with beautiful illustrations by C.E. Brock to the upper board in gilt and throughout the text in b&w. The brittle dustwrapper in green and grey has slight loss at the head, tail & middle of the spine and neat internal repair to the top of the front & rear panels. (95% complete). Missing piece of front panel retained in book. Rare in this state. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: The Bookshop on the Heath Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$90.75 + shipping
Description: Illustrated edition; 8vo; frontispiece and illustrations by C.E. Brock, 16pp. advertisements, some foxing to early leaves; publisher's green cloth elaborately blocked in gilt with thistles, roses, hearts and scrolls decorations, gilt edges, overall very good. An attractive edition of this charmingly illustrated insight into English life in the 19th century.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom