The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and heartbreaking loss to humorous stories of ghost encounters, these volumes captivate the imaginations of readers young and old. Included in this collection are a variety of dramatic and spirited poems that contemplate the mysteries of life and celebrate the wild beauty of nature. The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection provides readers with an ...
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The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and heartbreaking loss to humorous stories of ghost encounters, these volumes captivate the imaginations of readers young and old. Included in this collection are a variety of dramatic and spirited poems that contemplate the mysteries of life and celebrate the wild beauty of nature. The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection provides readers with an opportunity to enjoy and study these iconic literary works, many of which were written during a period of remarkable creativity.
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Add this copy of Camp Fires and Guide Posts to cart. $19.99, good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1921 by CHARLES SCRIBNER.
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Good. Bound in publishers blue cloth. Gilt lettering and tooling on spine and front cover. Good binding and cover. Page 89/90 is torn and half is absent. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.
Add this copy of Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts to cart. $33.81, very good condition, Sold by Bibliodisia Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1921 by Scribners.
Add this copy of Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts to cart. $78.00, like new condition, Sold by DenaliBay, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1921 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Fine. A Book of Essays and Excursions. Published October 1921. Blue decorative gilt design and lettering on front end board and spine. Tight sound copy, minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated.
Add this copy of Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts to cart. $250.00, very good condition, Sold by B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1921 by New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Publisher's dark blue cloth designed by Margaret Armstrong (unsigned); in the scarce original dust jacket, light green laid paper stamped in dark green, a simple design, not matching the binding. Very good or better book, text block uniformly toned and with some darker foxing to endpapers and prelims, small nick to rear free endpaper at top edge, some very light wear to corners, cloth bright and clean; in a very good unclipped dust jacket, with some toning to spine, light scattered foxing and soiling most notably to rear panel, shallow chipping to head of spine and two small holes near middle of spine. Overall, an attractive book in an excellent example of the extremely scarce dust jacket. Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts is a collection of essays and reflections by Henry Van Dyke, minister, diplomat, and professor of English at Princeton University. Specifically, it includes "Fishing in Strange Waters, " "Japonica, " "Firelight Views, " "A Certain Insularity of Islanders, " "Sympathetic Antipathies, " and "Interludes on the Koto, " among others. In addition to his essays, this volume also includes what Van Dyke calls interludes, which he says, "may be taken as talks by the camp-fire, " as well as several tributes to fellow beloved travelers. Notably, this volume is one of many bindings that are part of a uniform set of Van Dyke's novels, published from 1895-1926. Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944) was a renowned artist and designer. Along with her contemporary Sarah Wyman Whitman (1824-1904), Armstrong is an example of how the Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic movements at the time provided new opportunities for women's employment in the arts. After beginning her career with A. C. McClurg, Armstrong worked primarily for Scribner's and specifically focused on the works of a few authors. Armstrong's style, which was influenced by the floral patterns of Art Nouveau and the lines and shapes that are characteristic of the Arts and Crafts movement, made her bindings distinct, which was useful in terms of advertisement and branding an author's works as a unique set.
