Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company (The Riverside Press). Very Good. 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Green blindstamp decorated cloth, a band of gilt pictorial decoration centering a sailing ship with a US flag against a Venetian background on cover, bordered above with a gilt ruled ribon with black sea creatures in a gilt sea, and bordered below with a gilt ruled black title label panel with gilt lettering; Howells' name in gilt centered below the whole; on the top of the spine cover the same overall pattern is repeated, but with the title in black lettering on a single gilt sail with the same ribbon border above and with Howell's name below; dark green endpapers with repeating patters of leaf designs. 326 pages, double blank pages at front and back of text block. Neat, now faint, period ink owner's name, gift source, date, and location of Cleveland, O[H] on first blank page. Otherwise unmarked, clean, solid, generally attractive copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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Bookseller: Frenchboro Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 43980
Title: The Lady Of The Aroostook
Author: Howells, W. D
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Houghton, Osgood and Company (The Riverside Press)
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1879

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Frenchboro Books

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We handle books from academic libraries (from institutions and scholars), both deaccessions and gift books from alumni, and from closed Seminary Bookstores. Our original location was on a remote island in Maine, the Island of Frenchboro, and thus the origin of our name. For a time we operated a brick and mortar store in Bangor four days a week, and then moved that to the Antique Marketplace on Main Street in Bangor, which still caries some of our stock. The major stock of our business is now housed in Louisville, Colorado. Our listings can include a wide range of material, but the majority are non-fiction, scholarly works.

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