Main-Travelled Roads [Inscribed and Signed]
by Hamlin Garland
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Company, 1907. Very Good. New York: Macmillan Company, 1907. New Edition "with additional stories." Octavo; publisher's pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; ix,[1],299pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, spine gilt slightly dulled, rear hinge starting, else Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title.
Later edition of Hamlin Garland's first book, a collection of short stories set in his native rural Midwest and the agrarian communities of the prairie states. The cover design is aptly corn-themed.
Later edition of Hamlin Garland's first book, a collection of short stories set in his native rural Midwest and the agrarian communities of the prairie states. The cover design is aptly corn-themed.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29485
- Title
- Main-Travelled Roads [Inscribed and Signed]
- Author
- Hamlin Garland
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
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