freeport n y books for libraries press 1969 (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0836913027. Hardback. Later Printing. No dustjacket, bound in blue cloth with gold gilt lettering in red background on spine. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers and along spine, some browning to edges of interior pages, slight spine cock. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 223 pages illustrations 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0836931122; 9780836931129 LCCN: 75-94732 ; OCLC: 30548 ; LC: PZ3.H314; PR4762; Dewey: 823/.8 ; brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Reluctance -- Why men don't marry -- A change of heart -- A repentant sinner -- 'Twixt will and will not -- Which shall it be? -- Marriage by compulsion -- All's well that ends well. ; "Now, concerning what follows, I have, since then, entertained some doubts whether I behaved in all respects discreetly. You will allow that the position was a difficult one, but it is, I admit, very possible that my wisest course would have been to make an apology and turn tail as quickly as I could. Well, I didn't. I thought that I owed the lady a full explanation. Besides, I wanted a full explanation myself. Finally (oh, yes, I see you fellows grinning and winking), Mary was not there, and this young lady rather interested me. I decided that I would have five minutes' talk with her" ; "The man who wrote 'The Prisoner of Zenda,' Anthony Hope, has been turning his talents to short-story writing, and has produced a small volume of them under the title of " A Frivolous Cupid." He has a light and sure touch, and in these stories his sparkle and brilliancy have not deserted him. They are not magazine stories by any means, and therefore they have a charming style about them. In one called "Reluctance" the process of what is commonly called "puppy" love is happily described with the inevitable result. The youngster in a few years passed by the married woman he once loved and actually did not know her. The stories are written in the author's best vein."-Commercial Advertiser, 1895 ; There is a curious comment by the author in The Bookman: "Mr. Hope has recently written to The Bookman that an American firm has published 'a new volume of stories, by Anthony Hope, entitled " Frivolous Cupid.'" Mr. Hope says: 'I have never written any story or any volume of stories under the title of " Frivolous Cupid," and I am in no way responsible for this publication. The stories are very probably written by me. I have not seen the volume. But since I myself exercise a strict censorship with regard to the republication of my earlier essays, I do not desire that in America, where I have received such kind and generous encouragement, I should be held responsible for what may be, in my own judgment, entirely unworthy of republication.'" ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 272 pages illustrations 21 cm.; ISBN: 0836932145; 9780836932140 LCCN: 76-101826 ; LC: PZ3.W888; PS3362; Dewey: 813/.4 ; OCLC: 48824 ; Contents: The front yard.--Neptune's shore.--A pink villa.--The street of the Hyacinth.--A Christmas party.--In Venice. ; brown cloth l no dustjacket ; "Woolson was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, but her family soon moved to Cleveland, Ohio, after the deaths of three of her sisters from scarlet fever. Woolson was educated at the Cleveland Female Seminary and a boarding school in New York. She traveled extensively through the midwest and northeastern regions of the U.S. during her childhood and young adulthood. Woolson's father died in 1869. The following year she began to publish fiction and essays in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine. Her first full-length publication was a children's book, The Old Stone House (1873). In 1875 she published her first volume of short stories, Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches, based on her experiences in the Great Lakes region, especially Mackinac Island.In 1893 Woolson rented an elegant apartment on the Grand Canal of Venice. Suffering from influenza and depression, she either jumped or fell to her death from a window in the apartment in January 1894. Two volumes of her short stories appeared after her death: The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories (1895) and Dorothy and Other Italian Stories (1896). She is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, and is memorialized by Anne's Tablet on Mackinac Island, Michigan."--Wikipedia ; illustration by C. S. Reinhart ; VG. Book.