Search Results: the story of a country town by ew howe

The New American Library, 1964. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

HOLT, RINHART, & WINSTON, 1964-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. in x in x in. USED.... Paperback, outside back and front in good condition, binder in good condition, Main Text and Pages of Main Text in good condition. No signs of water damages, No signs writing, No signs of underlining, No signs markings, and No signs highlighting. Pages very clean.

Howe & co., 1964. First Signet. Paperback. Very good, owners name on front page. Yellowing of edges

Paperback. Very Good. VG+

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1929. Hardcover. Backstrip sun-faded; bottom end of backstrip and cover corners slightly bumped; pages edge-browned; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). . 317p. Frontispiece with tissue guard.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1927. Hardcover. Illustrations by Wilfred Jones. 8vo. Green cloth. xiii, 361pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Reprint of this sappy tale, first published in 1882.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. Pages age-toned and mildly soiled, hinges cracked, owner's name and address inked on front pastedown, spine ends chipped, spine cocked, a good only copy. A rustic American classic.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Gray cloth stamped in black and gilt. Pages age-toned and mildly soiled, hinges cracked, spine ends chipped, spine cocked, a good only copy. A rustic American classic.

Atchinson, Kas: Howe & Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Atchison, Kas: Howe & Company. 1883 First Edition. Fair condition. In original purple boards. Cover has some rubbing scuffs, especially to spine. Interior pages are yellowed but clean. The front end page has two inscriptions, both dated 1884. Two newspaper ads apparently for this novel are taped to the page. The binding is beginning to come away from the end pages. Page 2 is loose but present, no other pages are missing or loose. 226p, Illustrated. April Box 4

Blue Cloth covered hardcover boards with decorative gilt plate with blue lettering to front boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Front hinge repaired, former owner's name and date of FFE (June, 1884) with repaired tear to to fore edge. Closed tears to pages 13-through 16. Scuffing and wear to front and back boards, fraying to head and tail of spine.
This was Howe's self-published novel of small tonw life in midwestern America. At a time when local fiction was mainly ppicturesque, Howe's insight with social analysis, and trenchant realism won the vigorous support of both Mark Twain and William Dean Howells.
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James R. Osgood & Co., 1884. Wear to extremeties.. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket. Octavo.

Atchison, Ks: Howe and Co, 1883. First Edition, first issue. Signed by the author on the title page. According to James Hart in the Oxford Companion to American Literature, this novel is “...a powerful melodramatic tale of the narrow life of a midwestern community ...[that] has come to be recognized as a significant pioneering work of natuiralistic fiction.” Very good.