Search Results: Samantha At Saratoga, Or, Flirtin' With Fashion by Marietta Holley

Philadelphia.: Hubbard Bros., 1887. Same date, title & copyright pages.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Missiing rear endpaper, rear board detached from spine, holding with gauze underlayer. Lower corner rubs.. Opper, Frederick (Illustrations by). 1 583 p. Contents & List of Illustrations at back. Brown illustrations on cover of lighter brown cloth, gold w/ brown shadow embossed titles. Pen&Ink illustrations throughout. Frontispiece: engraved portrait of author. Illustrator is "Puck" cartooonist. Satire. Dedicated to the "Great Army of Summer Tramps...by their Comrade and Fellow Travelor, the Author". The author refers, she said to those summer tramps with "diamond ear-rings, and cuff-buttons, and Saratoga trunks, and big accounts at their bankers". Comic appraoch of the era, written in regional dialect and set in Saratoga Springs, NY, a late 19th century resort area with hotels, lake beaches, and horse racing. Written based on Marietta Holley's own… Read More

Phila: Hubbard. VG- (see notes). 1887. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 582pp . Hinge shows at frontis/title page, but hinges are intact, which is unusual for this series. Some wear to corners, edges. .

No Place: Edgewood Publishing CO.. Good+. 1892. Hardcover. 583 pages, green pictorial boards. Covers rubbed, contents slightly toned. Good+. .

Philadelphia: Edgewood Publishing Co. / Hubbard Bros., 1892. Hubbard copyright 1887.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Front board edges have minor soiling. Foxing to page blocks. Tight binding.. Opper, Frederick (Illustrated by).. 1 Tan cloth over boards. Beveled edges. Gold stamped ornate titles. Floral print end papers. Cover art: Pen&Ink with light gray spot color. 583 p. 20 cm. Tissue protected frontispiece: author portrait, engraving. Text language in dialect. Volume is dedicated "To the Great Army of Summer Tramps". Contents with details and lengthy List of Illustrations at back. Late 19th century vacationing tales.

Philadelphia : Edgewood, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 583 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Bound in contemporary cloth with pictorial cover. Gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Good binding and cover. Minimal shelfwear. Clean, unmarked pages.