Celia Thaxter 1973 Ltd Ed AMONG THE ISLES OF SHOALS post civil war shore life

Description: Floral-damask like design on cloth covered boards. No jacket issued. Paper title is pasted on the spine and cover. Clean end papers. This book is #112 of a limited edition release for subscribers only. Light soiling to cloth of book, more on the front than the back. Centennial edition, reproduced from the originaly 1873 edtion. Limited Edition sponsored by many of the most prominent of New England Families. Pencil marks on the FFEP. No indication of the previous owner's identity. “Among the Isles of Shoals . . . a paean to the trials and joys of island living, has a timeless quality that makes delightful reading today.” Celia Thaxter was already a popular poet when she began to publish the essays of Among the Isles of Shoals in the Atlantic Monthly in 1869; they were an immediate sensation. Charles Dickens called Thaxter's essays "admirable" and Horace Greeley declared, "The best prose writing I have seen for a long time is Mrs. Thaxter's 'Isles of Shoals' in the Atlantic. Her pen-pictures are wonderfully well-done."

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Location: Mogadore, Ohio

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Book Title: Among the Isles of Shoals

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Item Length: 9in.

Original Language: English

Publisher: Wake-Brook House

Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults

Edition: Limited Edition

Vintage: Yes

Publication Year: 1973

Type: Short Stories

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 0.6in.

Author: Celia Thaxter

Features: Illustrated, Numbered Copy

Genre: Literary Criticism, History

Topic: Poetry, American / General

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Item Width: 6in.

Item Weight: 11.2 Oz

Number of Pages: 192 Pages