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Ramona: A Story (Presentation copy from the illustrator)
by Jackson, Helen Hunt; Illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops [Utah Illustrator]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1932. Gift Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Herbert Morton Stoops. 447pp. Large octavo [24 cm] Tan cloth over boards with pink and brown linear patterns on the front board. Illustrated endpapers. Spine ends and bottom fore-edge corners of the covers gently bruised; covers fresh and bright; binding tight. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with light creasing and periodic small closed and open tears to the edges. Helen Hunt Jackson's classic, "Ramona," dramatizes the ill treatment by the United States government of Native Americans in Southern California.
Beautifully illustrated with a frontispiece in color and sixty-one illustrations in black-and-white by Herbert Morton Stoops. Stoops was born in Logan, Utah. This copy is inscribed at length by the illustrator on the half title page.
Beautifully illustrated with a frontispiece in color and sixty-one illustrations in black-and-white by Herbert Morton Stoops. Stoops was born in Logan, Utah. This copy is inscribed at length by the illustrator on the half title page.
Synopsis
Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson, is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in Southern California, suffering racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the Christian Union on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely popular. Overall, it has had more than 300 printings, been made into four film versions, and has been performed as an outdoor play annually since 1923.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65300
- Title
- Ramona: A Story (Presentation copy from the illustrator)
- Author
- Jackson, Helen Hunt; Illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops [Utah Illustrator]
- Illustrator
- Herbert Morton Stoops
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Gift Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- Herbert Morton Stoops; Utah Illustrator; Helen Hunt Jackson
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cloth
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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