This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI April Meets The Merediths Blossom had its main street, its aristocracy, and its "new people." Sneed's Emporium and the Post Office, flanked on the right by the old Tavern, known as the Armes House, made the Hub of the town. Opposite this center of commerce a strip of rough common, shaded by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI April Meets The Merediths Blossom had its main street, its aristocracy, and its "new people." Sneed's Emporium and the Post Office, flanked on the right by the old Tavern, known as the Armes House, made the Hub of the town. Opposite this center of commerce a strip of rough common, shaded by spreading elms and dignified by a gaudily painted bandstand, served as a gathering place for the whole county. A row of rotting hitching posts outlined the common. Across from the Post Office was the First Baptist Church, of red brick and squatty in line. To the right of the common the main street straggled off for a quarter of a mile, then turned abruptly into the "station road." At the turn stood St. Stephen's, its weather-worn steeple almost hidden by the sheltering trees. Back of it, hedged in by barberry and overgrown with myrtle, rested past generations of Blossom folk. An opening through the hedge led to the Rectory garden. Blossom's "aristocracy," because it was made up of men who followed the sea, lived out toward the Cove. Those hardy ones had built their homes where, from the small-paned windows, their women folk c old watch the ships sail in behind the Point. It had come to be called the Lighthouse Road. Though men of the later generations had taken up other callings and had moved away, others became masters of the big ships which steamed in and out of Boston harbor and came to Blossom only once in a great while, others, like Lymus Lee's father and Captain Manny, had added to their acres and tilled the soil with only a wistful thought now and then seaward, though the Cove, once alive with sails, was deserted except for a few fishermen and the summer picnicers and the old stone lighthouse on Windover Point had been abandoned for...
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Good+ with no dust jacket. Red pictorial cloth, moderate edge wear, but tight Former owner's gift inscription in front, paper yellowed.; HB, octavo; 287 pages.
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Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Book No names, clean text. Small tears to fore-edge margins pgs 25-28. Attractive Harriet R. Richards artwork. very good, vg chipped dj, pict. deep red cloth, NOT ex-lib 287 pgs.
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Good in Fair jacket. Ex-Libris. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket is rubbed, scuffed and chipped. Orange boards have edgewear. Prior owner name on fep. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Harriet Roosevelt Richards. Very Good + No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Clean + bright, minimal wear, a few light spots on spine + gutter. Innards clean & tight, inscrpt. on FFEP by John Clair Minot, author of books about Bowdoin College, among others. 287 pp.
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Harriet Roosevelt Richards. Very Good in Good+ jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. First impression (no additional impressions listed; four other books listed by the author). The spine is slanted. The rear board is soiled. Gift inscription, dated March 8, 1922, is on the front free endpaper. Small spots of foxing to the title page. The binding is tight and the hinges are intact. The dust jacket is edgeworn, with frayed spine ends. The spine and rear panel are soiled. No title visible on the spine. The price, $1.75, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.
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Richards, Harriet Roosevelt. Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. "Jane D. Abbott holds the place in the hearts of the girls today that Louisa May Alcott held in the hearts of their mothers." Red boards with black pictorials and lettering, b/w frontispiece, 287 pp., 3 b/w text illustrations, full-color illustrated jacket housed in a scarce full-color illustrated slipcase. Light shelf wear, brief gift note (dated 1927) on the front free endpaper, very clean throughout, tight binding. Jacket is lightly worn with tiny chips at the top of the spine and a short tear on the bottom of the spine and a faint doodle (? ) on spine strip. Slipcase, with presentation box filled-in, is also in nice condition.
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Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. Beige cloth cover has a couple very small modest soil spots but bright and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and near pristine. Dust jacket has soiled and foxed with wear to the extremities but in good+ condition. Publisher's price of $1.75 On DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. )
