There was an air of calm and reserved opulence about the Weightman mansion that spoke not of money squandered, but of wealth prudently applied. Standing on a corner of the Avenue no longer fashionable for residence, it looked upon the swelling tide of business with an expression of complacency and half-disdain. The house was not beautiful. There was nothing in its straight front of chocolate-colored stone, its heavy cornices, its broad, staring windows of plate glass, its carved and bronze-bedecked mahogany doors at the top ...
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There was an air of calm and reserved opulence about the Weightman mansion that spoke not of money squandered, but of wealth prudently applied. Standing on a corner of the Avenue no longer fashionable for residence, it looked upon the swelling tide of business with an expression of complacency and half-disdain. The house was not beautiful. There was nothing in its straight front of chocolate-colored stone, its heavy cornices, its broad, staring windows of plate glass, its carved and bronze-bedecked mahogany doors at the top of the wide stoop, to charm the eye or fascinate the imagination. But it was eminently respectable, and in its way imposing. It seemed to say that the glittering shops of the jewelers, the milliners, the confectioners, the florists, the picture-dealers, the furriers, the makers of rare and costly antiquities, retail traders in luxuries of life, were beneath the notice of a house that had its foundations in the high finance, and was built literally and figuratively in the shadow of St. Petronius' Church.
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Good. No Jacket. Pages are clean and bright with no markings. Binding is fine. Minor rubbing to the corners of the green cloth coverboards. P.o. name on the first page and dated 'December 25, 1911'. P.o. notes on the upper left corner of the inside of the back coverboard.
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Very Good. First edition. Slim 16mo. (4 1/2" x 6") in olive green blindstamped cloth, lettered in gilt and with tipped on color illustration. INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. "Inscribed with sincere and warm friendship for ____ ____/ Henry van Dyke/ Dec. 10, 1914". 60 pp. Frontis plate and additional illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Very good, fading to the spine strip and some light foxing to the title and first page of text.
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