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Strangers and wayfarers / by Sarah Orne Jewett.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1890 Jewett
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Signed bindings (Binding) -- 1890.
- Physical Description:
- 279 p. ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1890.
- Contents:
- A winter courtship
- The mistress of Sydenham plantation
- The town poor
- The quest of Mr. Teaby
- The luck of the Bogans
- Fair day
- Going to Shrewsbury
- The taking of Captain Ball
- By the morning boat
- In dark New England days - The white rose road.
- Notes:
- "The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. Electrotyped and Printed by H.O. Houghton & Company."--T.p. verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Original binding, three piece style. Cover design by Sarah Wyman Whitman and signed "SW" within a cockleshell.
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Art Bound: Book Design Past & Present," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2008.
- Athenaeum's copy stamped on t.p.: "Received Nov 21 1890 The Athenaeum."
- Cited in:
- Allen, Sue. Decorated cloth in America, p. 101
- BAL, 10898
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1876-1900, 2983
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