Carnac's Folly by Parker, Gilbert - 1922

Philadelphia / London.: J B Lippincott Company., 1922. First edition. Same date, title and copyright pages.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Minor fade to spine titles. Frontispiece loosening near top. Light edge wear.. Lauderback, Walter (Illustrations by).. 1 352 p. Includes illustrations. Red cloth over boards. Black titles. 5x8in. Frontispiece and 3 other plates: grayscale artwork. Prolific early 20th century novelist, short story writer, and poet Gilbert Parker opens this story with 2 children on a summer's day in the woods. Carnac, 14, and Junia, 8, are near a lumbering operation. Carnac's father is a lumber king of Canada, and Carnac is a dreamer, easily distracted. Junia and her sister are daughters of a not-so-ambitious lawyer. They will meet again and again as their lives go forward. This volume was purchased in Boston at Chas. E. Lauriat Co., Importers & Booksellers; so says the small sticker on the first free end paper.

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1922. First Edition, First Printing; 352 clean, unmarked pages; red c w/black titles. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Walter Lauderback. 12 Vo.

Philadelphia: J B Lippincott. Good in Good dust jacket. 1922. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth spotted, cocked, tone, light foxing, owner's signature, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket two detached chips at spine tail, edgeworn with tears and chipping, rubbed, worn. Solid hardcover. ; Later romance novel by prolific Canadian author and politician Gilbert Parker. "By a strange piece of folly, Carnac's career is almost wrecked and his love for beautiful Junia Shale brough to naught. ... French Quebec with its vivid humanity and the swirling river with its fighting, striving, heroic lumber men, form a vigorous background to this story of singular interest." First US Edition, First Printing, in Dust Jacket. ; 352 pages .

Paperback / softback. New.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1922. Hardcover. Good. Second edition (stated on half-title page). Red cloth stamped in black lettering. Contemporary owner's gift inscription on front fly, gutter cracked with spine cocked, spine ends and corners rubbed, good only lacking the dustwrapper. Romantic novel.

Paperback. New.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

New.