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The country of the pointed firs : and other stories / Sarah Orne Jewett ; selected and introduced by Mary Ellen Chase ; illustrated by Shirley Burke.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 2556
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maine--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Maine.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Schimmel, Stuart B. (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton and Co., 1968.
- Summary:
- Portraits and scenes of the quiet life in a seaside village in Maine.
- Contents:
- The country of the pointed firs
- A Dunnet shepherdess
- The foreigner
- The queen's twin
- William's wedding
- A white heron
- Miss Tempy's watchers
- Martha's lady
- Aunt Cynthy Dallett.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has bookplate of Stuart B. Schimmel affixed to front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 491106
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