The Collection Part I
An Island Garden
An Island Garden
$65.00
by Celia Thaxter
Illustrations/Photography by: Childe Hassam
Exquisite reproduction of Thaxter and Hassam’s original 1894 publication, with a new introduction by Allen Lacy. Thaxter was a popular and respected poet, essayist, and journalist of the late 19th century who spent her life, from childhood, among the New England literati, mostly in the community that gathered around her father’s hotel on Appledore Island off the coast of Maine. By the time she took over the hotel, the community had expanded to include artists like Hassam, one of America’s premier impressionist painters, who produced some of his best work in her flower garden. This is their collaboration, full of lyrical prose and practical gardening advice and bursting with Hassam’s watercolors, not to mention the classic arts-and-crafts green-and-gold binding.
Published in 1988, c1894 by Houghton Mifflin, Boston
ISBN: 0395485916
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Comments: Comes witih slipcover instead of dust jacket.
Tight, crisp, no edge wear, no markings. Slip case still has original shrinkwrap.
Description: xiv, ix, 126 p. [12] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
LoC author statement says: "Celia Thaxter, pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam, introduction by Allen Lacy"
Seller Inventory #: 0000152
Illustrations/Photography by: Childe Hassam
Exquisite reproduction of Thaxter and Hassam’s original 1894 publication, with a new introduction by Allen Lacy. Thaxter was a popular and respected poet, essayist, and journalist of the late 19th century who spent her life, from childhood, among the New England literati, mostly in the community that gathered around her father’s hotel on Appledore Island off the coast of Maine. By the time she took over the hotel, the community had expanded to include artists like Hassam, one of America’s premier impressionist painters, who produced some of his best work in her flower garden. This is their collaboration, full of lyrical prose and practical gardening advice and bursting with Hassam’s watercolors, not to mention the classic arts-and-crafts green-and-gold binding.
Published in 1988, c1894 by Houghton Mifflin, Boston
ISBN: 0395485916
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Comments: Comes witih slipcover instead of dust jacket.
Tight, crisp, no edge wear, no markings. Slip case still has original shrinkwrap.
Description: xiv, ix, 126 p. [12] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
LoC author statement says: "Celia Thaxter, pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam, introduction by Allen Lacy"
Seller Inventory #: 0000152