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A BOY'S TOWN
by Howells, W.D
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1890. Described for "Harper's Young People". Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Original blue-green cloth elaborately decorated in silver and lettered in gilt
First Edition, first state, of Howells's tale of his own Ohio boyhood. The first state has the caption for the plate facing p. 110 erroneously describing the boys as celebrating "the Fourth" in the snow, and has the canal vignette on the verso of the Contents leaf -- later moved to p. 44). This is a bright copy, just about fine (just a trace of wear at the extremities) of this attractively-bound book. Blanck 9654; Johnson High Spots p. 43 ("The boy's town is Hamilton Ohio and "the boy" is Howells. For boy life in America it helps to fill the gap in period between Tom Sawyer and Penrod."); Peter Parley to Penrod p. 92. Provenance: "oilwell" bookplate of the collector Frank L. Hadley.
First Edition, first state, of Howells's tale of his own Ohio boyhood. The first state has the caption for the plate facing p. 110 erroneously describing the boys as celebrating "the Fourth" in the snow, and has the canal vignette on the verso of the Contents leaf -- later moved to p. 44). This is a bright copy, just about fine (just a trace of wear at the extremities) of this attractively-bound book. Blanck 9654; Johnson High Spots p. 43 ("The boy's town is Hamilton Ohio and "the boy" is Howells. For boy life in America it helps to fill the gap in period between Tom Sawyer and Penrod."); Peter Parley to Penrod p. 92. Provenance: "oilwell" bookplate of the collector Frank L. Hadley.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15236
- Title
- A BOY'S TOWN
- Author
- Howells, W.D
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1890
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction (19th Century);
Terms of Sale
Sumner & Stillman
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About the Seller
Sumner & Stillman
Biblio member since 2009
Yarmouth, Maine
About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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