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The country of the pointed firs / by Sarah Orne Jewett.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1896 Jewett
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seaside resorts--Fiction.
- Seaside resorts.
- Summer resorts--Fiction.
- Summer resorts.
- Country life--Fiction.
- Country life.
- Authorship--Fiction.
- Authorship.
- Maine--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Maine.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- 1896.
- Publishers decorated bindings (Binding) -- 1896.
- Physical Description:
- 213 p. ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1896.
- Contents:
- The return
- Mrs. Todd
- The schoolhouse
- At the schoolhouse window
- Captain Littlepage
- The waiting place
- The outer island
- Green island
- William
- Where pennyroyal grew
- The old singers
- A strange sail
- Poor Joanna
- The hermitage
- On shell-heap Island
- The great expedition
- A country road
- The bowden reunion
- The feast's end
- Along shore
- The backward view.
- Notes:
- Publisher's device on t.p.
- Includes [2] p. of publisher's advertisements at end.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in original green cloth with design and lettering in gilt on front cover and spine. Cover design attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman.
- Athenaeum's copy stamped on t.p.: "Received Nov 9 1896."
- Cited in:
- BAL, 10910
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1876-1900, 2974
- Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 (electronic resource), v. 1, pg. 87
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