Main-Travelled Roads: Being Six Stories of the Mississippi Valley
by GARLAND, Hamlin
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge and Chicago, Stone and Kimball, 1893., 1893. First edition thus. 8vo. Introduction by W.D. Howells. Decorations by H.Y. Carpenter. Title page printed in orange and black. Original gilt stamped tan cloth, spine and upper cover with gilt stamped designs of tasseled cornstalks, t.e.g., uncut (spine darkened, soiling). Good-very good. Number 39 of 110 large paper copies, signed by the publisher on limitation page. Kramer 4a. See BAL 9680 (Howells). Photograph of Garland laid down on verso of frontispiece.. Signed by Author(s). F. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2640
- Title
- Main-Travelled Roads: Being Six Stories of the Mississippi Valley
- Author
- GARLAND, Hamlin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- F
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cambridge and Chicago, Stone and Kimball, 1893.
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- LITERATURE
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