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  • JERSEY STREET AND JERSEY LANE: Urban and Suburban Sketches. by Bunner, H.C. [Henry Cuyler, 1855-1896]
    Bunner, H.C. [Henry Cuyler, 1855-1896]
    JERSEY STREET AND JERSEY LANE: Urban and Suburban Sketches.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Hardcover first edition - Six short pieces, alternating between New York City and the country. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and numerous en texte drawings by A.B. Frost, B. West Clinedinst, Irving R. Wiles and Kenneth Frazier. Bound in very dark blue clothe with art nouveau style decorations by Margaret Armstrong (with her monogram on the front cover) and lettering in gilt. Top edge gilt. xiv, 201 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

    Condition: Very good (gift inscription dated Christmas 1898, some fraying to the top of the spine)

    Book ID: 75106
    Keywords: decorative binding, illustrated, margaret armstrong, new jersey, short stories, Vintage books and paperbacks
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  • MASTER OF THE VINEYARD. by Reed, Myrtle (1874-1911); binding by Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944)
    Reed, Myrtle (1874-1911); binding by Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944)
    MASTER OF THE VINEYARD.

    Edition: 2nd printing (same month as the first)

    New York: Putnam, 1910. Hardcover - A novel by this prolific writer, bound in lavender cloth in a beautiful example of Margaret Armstrong's Art Nouveau style with gilt lettering and a gilt and purple grapevine, with her monogram on the front board. Color frontispiece portrait by Blendon Campbell with a printed tissue guard. Each page has the text inside black ruled borders with red running heads. 372 pp.

    Condition: Very good overall (front hinge cracked, gift inscription dated 1910).

    Book ID: 75079
    Keywords: art nouveau, decorative binding, margaret armstrong, Vintage books and paperbacks
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  • A SPINNER IN THE SUN. by Reed, Myrtle (1874-1911); binding by Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944)
    Reed, Myrtle (1874-1911); binding by Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944)
    A SPINNER IN THE SUN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, 1906. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this prolific writer, bound in lavender cloth in a beautiful example of Margaret Armstrong's Art Nouveau style with gilt lettering and gilt leaves and spiderweb. Each page has the text inside black ruled borders with red running heads. 393 pp. Top edge gilt.

    Condition: Good overall (previous owner's name, some spots of foxing, rubbing to spine).

    Book ID: 89625
    Keywords: art nouveau, decorative binding, margaret armstrong, Vintage books and paperbacks
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  • IMMENSEE by Storm, Theodore (1817-1888); Helen and Margaret Armstrong, illustrators.
    Storm, Theodore (1817-1888); Helen and Margaret Armstrong, illustrators.
    IMMENSEE

    Edition: First printing.

    Chicago: McClurg and Co, 1907. Hardcover first edition - An early novella by Storm (originally published in German in 1850) and a masterpiece of German poetic realism, with its delicate language and its atmospheric, melancholic mood, as it tells a bittersweet story of unfulfilled love through a man's nostalgic memories of his childhood sweetheart, Elisabeth, who married another. A lovely book, illustrated with a full color frontispiece, 8 full color plates, illustrated initial letters at each chapter and decorative green borders on every page by sisters Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867-1944) and Helen Maitland Armstrong (1869-1948). Translated from the German by George P. Upton; includes a translator's preface and an appreciation of Storm by Upton, in which he notes that…

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    Chicago: McClurg and Co, 1907. Hardcover first edition - An early novella by Storm (originally published in German in 1850) and a masterpiece of German poetic realism, with its delicate language and its atmospheric, melancholic mood, as it tells a bittersweet story of unfulfilled love through a man's nostalgic memories of his childhood sweetheart, Elisabeth, who married another. A lovely book, illustrated with a full color frontispiece, 8 full color plates, illustrated initial letters at each chapter and decorative green borders on every page by sisters Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867-1944) and Helen Maitland Armstrong (1869-1948). Translated from the German by George P. Upton; includes a translator's preface and an appreciation of Storm by Upton, in which he notes that the theme of this book is lost youth and the symbol of it is the water lily. The water lily is the image used by Margaret Armstrong in the cover art, on the endpapers (one of the few examples of Armstrong illustrated endpapers) and on the title page. Large octavo, unpaginated.

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    Condition: Very good in tan boards with a green, white and gilt art nouveau cover by Armstrong (rubbing to the front cover and spine, corners and edges somewhat worn, contents near fine)

    Book ID: 93693
    Keywords: german poetic realism, Literature in translation, margaret armstrong
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