Search Results: three girls in a flat by enid yandell laura

hansebooks, 2016-07-26. paperback. New. 5x0x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Knight, Leonard and Co, 1892. Hardcover. Good. Gold title on dark gray cover. Missing fly leaf. Cracked gutters. Gilt top edge tight text block with slight cocking. Many small illustrations and photographs all dealing with the Columbian Exhibition of 1892-93.

Chicago: Knight, Leonard & Co, 1892. FIRST EDITION. With numerous text illustrations, many full-page and photographic. Following the end of the text, there is a full-page illustration and 17 pages of very interesting advertisements. Original cloth with title in gilt on cover, worn and stained; interior very good. With the bookplate of Chas. F. Quincy. First edition. Well-known American sculptor Enid Yandell (1869-1934), along with Jean Loughborough and Laura Hayes tell the story of three young women living in Chicago leading up to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Written in a journalist style and semi-autobiographical, Yandell enlisted the help of her two friends, one a secretary and the other a file clerk, to write the adventures of the three female characters as they traverse society in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Illustrated throughout by Helen M. Armstrong, A.B. Wenzell, C. Graham, True Williams, J.H. Vanderpoel, A.F. Brooks, Hugh Tallant, and Walter Tallant Owen.

First Edition. White and Blue cloth boards. Top edge gilt, some spotting on covers. Water damage along spine; only affects bottom edge of the last few pages near spine. Running along spine. Corners bumped and slightly worn. Wear to head/tail of spine. Previous owners name and inscription on back of front cover and front free endpaper; otherwise pages clean. Weak hinge on front and rear boards. Well illustrated.

Chicago: Knight, Leonard & Co, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bound in blue and white cloth with gilt stamped titles, 8vo, 154,[2] pages, profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs; boards dust soiled with faint foxing and light tide marks at bottom corners, small pink stain at bottom front corner, spine heavily toned, hinges professionally reinforced, internally clean and sound. Semi-autobiographical novel about three women sharing a flat in Chicago during the time leading up to the Chicago World's Fair. The story is based around the real life work of Enid Yandell, a sculptor who studied with Auguste Rodin, and who contributed several notable works to the Columbian Exposition. She is "Duke" in the novel, which tells of her work as a sculptor on the Fairgrounds and the life of young women in Chicago as the White City was being built.

Chicago, IL: ***** Self Published *****. G/FR. (1892). ........ Cloth w/DJ. The Story of the Women's Building. Inscribed by one of the authors, Laura Hayes (Fuller) . 8vo., 164 pp., Dj frayed, tears, large chips missing, cover faded, hinges cracked, .