Atma Fairy Stories
by Holloway-Langford, Laura C.; Chapin, Elizabeth; Ralston, Maude
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Home Publishing Company, 1903. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo. 147 pages. Hardcover in grey cloth with front cover designs embossed in dark brown and gilt. The binding is quite rubbed and worn. The front board has damping. Rear board has smudges and scuffs. Some pages are damped have smudging. Text is foxed. No copyright date, but the book was published in 1903. An early owner's inscription on front flyleaf reads, "To Thomas (?) from Katherine Kelby. / Feb. 19, 1905." We have found a listing of this book for sale in the December, 1903 advertisements of "The Theosophical Forum." The advertisement in that journal of this book states, "The dawn of a new day in the intellectual and spiritual development of the child. These stories, which embody the higher laws of being, are so simply told that the youthful mind can easily comprehend them. Between each story is an exquisite 'Moonlight Lullaby.'" (The "Moonlight Lullaby" is a poem between each little story. Not an illustrated work. Laura C. Holloway-Langford (1848-1930) was born in Tennessee and after a brief marriage in the 1860s turned to writing to support herself. She is best known for her 1870 book, "Ladies of the White House." She became a journalist and editor and was friends with Susan B. Anthony. She became active in progressive women's causes, the temperance movement, and theosophy. She was admitted to the Society in 1883. This scarce book of Fairy tales is a collection of tales inspired by theosophy.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045971
- Title
- Atma Fairy Stories
- Author
- Holloway-Langford, Laura C.; Chapin, Elizabeth; Ralston, Maude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Home Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1905; 1903; Laura C. Holloway-Langford; Elizabeth P. Chapin; Maude Ralston; Fairy Stories; Fairy Stories; Fiction; Children's Books; Theosophy; Theosophical; Rare; Collectible..
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Literature & Fiction; General Antiquarian & Rare;
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About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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