The Story Of a Country Town

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… Read more about this item

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.

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1961. No Edition Stated. 347 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Edited by Claude M Simpson. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Boards have some moderate… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

New York: Blue Ribbon Books. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1927. Reprint. Hardcover. Spine cover is sun toned. Cover edges rubbed with bumped corners and curling spine ends. The text is unmarked and the binding remains sound. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 361 pages .

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1917. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. [8], 413 pages, [1]. Frontispiece photograph of the author. Green cloth hardcover with decorative gilt border, designs, title and an illustration on the front cover. Slightly faded gilt title on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good-. Author's first book. First Edition. Presumed first state without lettering below author's name on spine). Green cloth. Bookplate of Horace E. Scudder, American author and editor. Donated to Bryn Mawr College Library by Sylvia Scudder Bowditch. Chips to front board. Chip to spine. Wear to extremities. Spine… Read more about this item

Atchison, KS: Howe & Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1883. Hardcover. Text is clean. Cover shows light expected wear, light rubbing at corners and spine ends. Green cloth with gilt lettering and cover decor. Pages tanning lightly. Front hinge shaken.1883 printing. .

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.

Atchison, Kas.:: Howe & Co.,, 1883.. First edition.. original blue cloth stamped in black and gold.. Neat tissue repairs to a few leaves in the first gathering; cloth rubbed and worn at extremities.. 8vo,. Illustrated from original designs by W. I. Wells. Wright III 2802. Publisher's blue advertising slip on pastedown.

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… Read more about this item

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

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is in near fine condition with a crack to front cover and ffe. No jacket. Nice collectible. Readers may be interested to know that The Story of a Country Town, was written entirely at night,… Read more about this item

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1927. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Wilfred Jones. Fair-plus condition; Binding still solid & square; Inside pages are clean throughout. Green cloth covers show wear & some soiling & discoloration at edges; Spine has a stain and a crease. Top page block has a light stain. Owners name (in pen) inside front cover.We ship within 24 hours… Read more about this item

A Signet Book, 1964. Paperback. Acceptable. 1964. First Printing. 317 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Slight cracking to binding, pages remain attached. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Stamp to first page. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners and reading creases. Light tanning to spine and edges. Pen mark to spine. Sticker to rear cover.

Atchison, Kansas: Howe & Co., 1883. Light age wear, else the letterpress textblock is clean and tight. Binding faded and weathered; Bumped and worn corners, edges and spine extremities; Moisture faded and stained along top edge of rear cover. 226p. Western Fiction.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by W. L. Wells. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.… Read more about this item

Albert & Charles Boni, January 1926. Hardcover Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good Hardcover with No DJ. Moderate soiling and shelfwear to covers, including mild rubbing tearing on corners. Spine ends starting to tear. Textblock, inside covers, and endpapers mildly soiled. A few pages have light soiling and/or creasing. Otherwise, pages yellowed, but clean and tight in binding. Pictures available… Read more about this item

Signet / New American Library, 1964. First edition, first printing. Near fine stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1884. Reprint. earl reprint, 1884. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. moderate shelfwear, ex school call number on spine, couple of stamps inside, slightly bowed front cover. 413 p.

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.