CABLE, GEORGE W ASHINTON (8 résultats)

Octavo, illustrations in color by Stanley M. Arthurs, original pictorial light blue cloth. First edition of this combination. "Pere Raphael" privately printed from the magazine plates in 1901; "Posson Jone'" was collected earlier in OLD CREOLE DAYS (1879). BAL 2377. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 C-22. Bookplate on front paste-down. A bright, fine copy. (#112841).

Octavo, original maroon cloth stamped in red and gold. First edition. Collects three novellas: "Carancro," "Grande Pointe" and "Au Large." Light wear to cloth at edges, marginalia lightly penciled on front free endpaper, a very good copy. (#133214).

Octavo, original pictorial olive green cloth stamped in brown and black. First U.S. (and first separate) edition. Cable's masterpiece, an important local color story set in New Orleans. "With Bret Harte he was one of the causes of the so-called 'local color episode' in American fiction." - DAB. BAL 2333. Wright (III) 870. Cloth worn at spine ends, corner tips rubbed, ex-Lenox Library copy with stamps on title page and bookplate on front free endpaper, a bright, very good copy. (#132789).

Octavo, pp. [iii-iv] v-vii [viii-x] 1-311 [312: blank] [313-316: ads] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], flyleaf at front, eight inserted plates with illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. This printing has no half title leaf, four pages of ads at rear and error "city-bird" for "city-bred" on page 34, line eight. ". [THE CAVALIER] has more of the witchery of [THE GRANDISSIMES] than anything which Mr. Cable has written for a long time . An acid critic might describe THE CAVALIER as a 'jingo' book, in that it extols, without distinction of caste or cause, the fine old military virtues, -- pluck, resource, gayety in hardship and pain, simple and unquestioning self-surrender." - The Atlantic, December, 1901. BAL 2368 (noted printing 2). Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 C-17. Slight spine lean, top edge of text block dusty, a very good copy with bright binding free of wear. Nice art nouveau binding designed by Margaret Armstrong. (#103408).

Octavo, original pictorial green cloth stamped in gold, floral patterned endpapers. First edition. Cable's second book and first novel. BAL 2331. Wright (III) 868. Cloth worn at edges, but a sound, very good copy. (#133120).

Octavo, pp. [iii-iv] v-vii [viii-x] 1-311 [312: blank] [313-316: ads] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], flyleaf at front, eight inserted plates with illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. This printing has no half title leaf, four pages of ads at rear and error "city-bird" for "city-bred" on page 34, line eight. ". [THE CAVALIER] has more of the witchery of [THE GRANDISSIMES] than anything which Mr. Cable has written for a long time . An acid critic might describe THE CAVALIER as a 'jingo' book, in that it extols, without distinction of caste or cause, the fine old military virtues, -- pluck, resource, gayety in hardship and pain, simple and unquestioning self-surrender." - The Atlantic, December, 1901. BAL 2368 (noted printing 2). Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 C-17. Top edge of text block dusty, slight shelf lean, a nearly fine copy binding bright and free of wear. Nice art nouveau binding designed by Margaret Armstrong. (#138103).

Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x-xii] 1-500, four inserted plates with color illustrations by F. C. Yohn, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Romantic novel set on the Mississippi during the 1890s. BAL 2381. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 C-19. A fine copy in nearly fine pictorial dust jacket with minute chips at corner tips. The jacket has a lovely wraparound illustration of steamboats on the Mississippi. (#110171).

Octavo, inserted frontispiece with color illustration by F. C. Yohn, original red cloth stamped in gold and blind. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Cable dated 1919 on half title page. Romantic novel set in New Orleans. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 C-18. BAL 2384. Some tarnish to gold spine lettering, upper front and rear corners bumped, a very good copy. (#132857).