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First edition. Small 8vo, 240pp; yellow-green cloth stamped in gold on the spine; white dust jacket with illustration front panel. Front flap of jacket creased. Near fine. The writer's second book, an account of a month-long expedition to Belize, Central America for tropical research.
PARROT'S WOOD
Fisk, Erma J.
New York: W.W. Norton Company, (1985).
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First edition. Signed by the writer at the title page. 8vo, 174pp; + Appendix; buff speckled boards with red cloth spine stamped in gold; pictorial dust jacket. 15 pieces on birds, their habits and habitats, and the people they encounter.
DANGEROUS BIRDS A Naturalist's Aviary
Lembke, Janet.
New York: Lyons & Burford, Publishers, (1992).
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First edition. 12mo, 149pp; narrow ribbed light green cloth with decorative design stamped in gilt, red and white at the front panel of a small French village with a castle rising above it in the background; lettered in gilt at the spine. Offsetting to front free endpaper and to rear free endpaper; text block shows light age-toning to pages. Gilt at spine dimmed; foretips a trifle pidgeon-toed; spine end and tips slightly worn; mild surface wear. About very good. Mrs. Wharton on her adopted country. In seven chapters she discusses "First Impressions", "Taste", "Intellectual Honesty" and "The New Frenchwoman" with succinct observations such as "The French are persuaded that the enjoyment of beauty and the exercise of the critical intelligence are two of the things best worth living for; and the notion that art and knowledge could ever, in a civilised state, be regarded as negligible, or subordinated to merely material interests, would never occur to them". Like Peter Mayle's IN PROVENCE and Tim Parks' ITALIAN NEIGHBORS, this book is less travel literature than a deep appreciation for the qualities of another country acquired through years of residence. Garrison A28.I.a.
FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING
Wharton, Edith.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1919.
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First edition. (1/400 copies). 8vo, 137pp; + Table of Contents; decorated stiff wrappers with print "Yachting dans l'Archipel". Edited by Claudine Lesage with an Editor's Note. Signed by Claudine Lesage. A small library in Hyeres long had a beautifully bound manuscript written in English. When a Conrad scholar who spoke English came to the library, the librarian eventually brought out the mss. to see if the scholar could say what the manuscript was. To her astonishment scholar Claudine Lesage realized that here was an undiscovered diary of Edith Wharton, an account of a Mediterranean cruise, her first, in 1888. A remarkable discovery which shows the fledgling writer beginning to hone her powers of observation. Near fine.
THE CRUISE OF THE VANADIS
Wharton, Edith.
Amiens: Sterne, (1992).
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Only edition. Privately printed. Small 8vo (7-1/2 x 5-3/8"), 126pp; dark blue wove cloth, "Souvenir" in gold-gilt at the front panel; beige floral endpapers. Minor wear to tips and ends. Very good. The author writes in her preface that she had intended her travel journal to be for her family, but that Dr. Cheney, who conducted the tour, urged her to have it printed as a souvenir for her fellow travelers. The names of those who comprised the party are printed at the end of the text - thirty-two in all. A circular inspires the foray: "We first learned of this trip through the circular mailed to us, and it seemed incredible that so much could be accomplished in the sixty-five days". Under the eye of Dr. Oscar Cheney and his wife, the group boards the steamer Scythia bound for Liverpool. The next two months take them to Scotland, England, across the channel to Belgium, then Germany with a trip up the Rhine, next Switzerland and finally France and the glories of Paris. They see what every Americans would hope to see: Loch Lomond, the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, the Louvre, etc. Yet she captures some vivid scenes, such as the grim landscape they view as their train from Liverpool travels north: "Soon the foundry fires begin to glow, lighting up the sky, the trees, like an immense conflagration. We pass many a foundry, whose blazing light flashes up like an eye of fire, making surrounding objects look as though dipped in blood". What lends the travelogue particular charm and interest are its spontaneous, unstudied tone and the details Emerson records. A Cross fountain pen is a necessary accessory. Swiss homes often bear over their doors "bunches of dried herbs, kept as a charm to ward off disease". A hospital courtyard, which serves as a way station, also serves as an accepted place for the maimed and injured to beg. (Emerson considers the beggars "loathsome"). The hotel at Giessbach Fall delights its visitors by illuminating the falls at night, attracting "all the guests ... as one color after another is thrown upon this mass of moving water". A fresh, happy account. OCLC locates four copies: Dartmouth, Harvard, Merrimack and the New Hampshire Historical Society. Available on microfilm and digitalized by Google.
A EUROPEAN TRIP. Summer of 1889. By One of the Party
[Travel] [Emerson, Carrie Edwards].
Bristol, N.H.: Press of R.W. Musgrove, 1890.
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