Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), one of the foremost "local color" writers in America, wrote exclusively about her native Maine--its landscape, its people, and its fading rural traditions. Her unsentimental, humorous, and deeply affectionate stories and sketches provide a realistic picture of a bygone time that is based on Jewett's family, neighbors, and personal experience, but that is filtered through the consciousness of an extremely gifted and observant fiction writer.
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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), one of the foremost "local color" writers in America, wrote exclusively about her native Maine--its landscape, its people, and its fading rural traditions. Her unsentimental, humorous, and deeply affectionate stories and sketches provide a realistic picture of a bygone time that is based on Jewett's family, neighbors, and personal experience, but that is filtered through the consciousness of an extremely gifted and observant fiction writer.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Pages are clean, no markings from previous owners. Boards are clean and square. Binding is tight. Text block is clean. DJ is bright and unmarked and lightly stained on bottom half of back.
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Edited and with an introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. This copy signed by Salmonson. 11 stories plus a preface by Joanna Russ. 500 copies printed. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Introduction by Annie E. Mower. 12mo. 61pp. Address label on front fly else fine in lightly worn, about fine dust jacket with a couple of nicks. *BAL* 10949.