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The king of Folly Island : and other people / by Sarah Orne Jewett.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1888 Jewett
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- New England--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- New England.
- Women--New England--Fiction.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1888.
- Publishers' advertisements -- 1888.
- Physical Description:
- 339 p. ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888.
- Contents:
- The king of Folly Island
- The courting of Sister Wisby
- The landscape chamber
- Law lane
- Miss Peck's promotion
- Miss Tempy's watchers
- A village shop
- Mère Pochette.
- Notes:
- "The Riverside Press, Cambridge: electrotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton & Co."--T.p. verso.
- Publisher's device on t.p.
- Includes 12 p. of publisher's advertisements at end.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in green cloth, three piece binding style, stamped in black on front and gold on spine; cover design attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman.
- Athenaeum's copy stamped on t.p.: "Received Jun 4 1888."
- Cited in:
- BAL, 10890
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1876-1900, 2976
- Allen, Sue. Decorated cloth in America, p. 99
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