Search Results: tales from the plum grove hills by stuart jesse

New York: Ballantine Books. Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Softcover. 0345237404 . Tightly bound, age-browned with a few brown spots and foxing. Cover is worn, a little wrinkled, slightly soiled, and detached by 1" on lower front. ; 12mo 7"-7+" tall. .

Ballantine Books Inc., 1974. Unknown Binding. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

E.P. Dutton and Co, 1946. First Edition. Very Good/Good. Book has minor wear and yellowing. Dust jacket has some edge tears, chipping and rubbing. Name inside. First edition. A nice copy. ***PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Owner name on front fly, foxing on boards with soiling on rear board, lightly toned spine, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1997-09. Hardcover. Good.

Paperback. Good. E.P. Dutton, 1946 first edition hardcover. Cream colored cloth cover shows minor wear. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. No dust jacket.

E.P. Dutton & Company, inc, 1946. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

E. P. Dutton. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Printing; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 256 pp; Stated first edition, excellent book in dust jacket with soiling on back white panel. A very nice tight attractive book .

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Company. Very good condition/No Dustjacket. 1946. First Edition. 8vo., 256 pp. .

New York: Dutton, 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+ to Near Fine/No Jacket. FULL page (21 lines) author inscription to a dallas newspaper man. Stated first edition. Very nice book with a slight spine lean, and some soiling/foxing to top edge. No jacket.

New York: Dutton, 1946. First edition. Very good in slt. marked dj. 8vo, 256pp. Off white cloth covers with title in brown on spine. Cloth covers quite fox spotted. Original dj with title in white on a red ground. Title in white on pale gray ground on spine, with black and red horizontal stripes below title on spine. Worn spot smaller than a dime on the front cover above the author's name, and a red letter Z on title on front cover, which is still legible. Internally very good; bright and clean. This is a collection of Kentucky stories about death and funerals, families, religion and politics.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1946. 256 pp. Original white cloth covers, very bright and clean. Bottom corners slightly bumped. DJ has wear to edges w/ an approx. 3" closed tear to rear panel. Lightly soiled. Contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

E.P. Dutton, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. In Mylar cover. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

New York: Dutton, 1946. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full tan cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in brown. Octavo. 256pps. Stated First Edition. There is mild bumping to a couple of corners, otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has light wear; the original price (2.75) is intact. A very nice, collector's-quality copy. ".Jesse Stuart's honest, earthy writing about the southern hill folk he knows so well has made him on of America's foremost authors of fiction. Here are twenty of his best stories -- stories that spring from the pungent soil of Kentucky, told in his plain but highly colorful style. These are stories about his own and other families, death and funeral stories, religious stories, political stories, and boy stories, all packed with Kentucky characters of all sorts and sizes." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are… Read More

First edition. Octavo. Original cream cloth stamped in brown. Dust jacket (unclipped; slight rubbing; few nicks). Very good. 256 pages.

Contains 20 short stories, 1938-44.

Signed and inscribed by Stuart on front free endpaper: "Oct. 12th 1946, To Polly Harmon with all good wishes. It's good to know you. Jesse Stuart."