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New York: Scribners, 1906 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. One of the most beautiful gilted covers I have seen! Original gilt blocked half leather and cloth boards, gold, green and light blue flower design on royal blue boards. Gilted spine with matching flower design. illustrated frontspiece plus 7 illustrated, colored plates. First Edition, 8th printing. Well preserved, near fine condition. Book plate pasted to inside front cover states: Ausder Bucherei: Ben Durfer. Also original owner gift inscription: "Compliments of Uncle George and Aunt Anna June 1908." "But what charmed him most, and drew him with restless power, was a tall, clear-blue flower, growing beside the spring, and almost touching him with its broad, glistening leaves. Round about were many other flowers, of all hues. Their odours mingled in a perfect chord of fragrance. He saw nothing but the Blue Flower. Long and tenderly he gazed at it, with unspeakable love. At last he felt that he must go a little nearer to it, when…
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THE BLUE FLOWER
by Henry Van Dyke
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The Poems of Henry Van Dyke: Now first collected and revised with many hitherto unpublished
by Henry Van Dyke
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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. F/ None First Edition Dark blue boards of this hardcover are in Fine condition, pristine with hardly any shelf wear on the corners or spine. Square book, crisp and unmarked 467 pages. Gilt titles, page edges, and cover design. Portrait of the author across from title page. Former owner's ex libris sticker on inside front cover. Page one has been removed. "A word in prose to my gentle reader. This book is intended only for you, because you alone will keep it with you long enough to feel it's meaning. . . What I have seen and felt and dreamed beyond the horizon of prose, yet ever in the most real world, is here interpreted in verse. And if it speaks to you, gentle reader, it is yours as much as mine." ~Henry Van Dyke.
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Tides of Mont St Michel
by Roger Vercel
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New York: Random House, 1938 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated First Printing, 1938. VG condition/none, light brown boards with a breathtaking sketch of the Cathedral on the island of Mont St Michel on the front cover. Bottom spine is frayed a bit, slight bumping to edge of spine and corners. Number "7" printed on spine. Light stains to cover along edges. Illustrated fly leafs, cool military stamps on inside of covers, " Post Library, 3rd Corps area Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, PA." and "Headquarters Service Club HRPE Newport News, VA." Printed numbers and checkout cards. "This is the Abbey of Mont St Michel - crowning glory of medieval architecture. Not only a shrine, it is also a fortress set boldly on a great rock in the Atlantic Ocean. At low tide the causeway to the French mainland is passable; at high tide the water submerges it, and the Abbey becomes an island. This modern novel tells of a drama enacted within the stone walls of the incredible structure that man…
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