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. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... ing a grace which lies beyond all thought of the larger world. (to Mrs. Fields) Little Compton, R. I., 8 September, 1880. Dear Mrs. Fields, -- This is not a land where it is easy to write letters. I can't help being idle, except in thought, and I think I never knew so quiet a country. It is all like ...
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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. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... ing a grace which lies beyond all thought of the larger world. (to Mrs. Fields) Little Compton, R. I., 8 September, 1880. Dear Mrs. Fields, -- This is not a land where it is easy to write letters. I can't help being idle, except in thought, and I think I never knew so quiet a country. It is all like the places one goes to on the way to sleep. There are n't any high hills, but you look over the fields which are so like moors, and you look and look, and there is nothing you have to stop and wonder about, the big roundheaded windmills are all still, and today is a grey day which can't make up its mind to take the trouble to rain, and here we are sitting by the fireplace, and I was busy watching the smoke until I thought I would write a letter or two. And whether I drive or sail I am the most placid and serene of all your friends, and I forget that I ever was a girl who could n't go to sleep at night. After this first letter the days passed without any record which has been preserved, until bits of diary occur written during her life at South Berwick in the following years. "The country is beautiful to look at, but it is such clear cold weather that you feel as if you were under a great block of clear, shining ice, instead of air and sky. There is a grey cloud-bank hanging over the sea all along the eastern horizon and I think it is going to snow again, or rain. The wood-sleds are creeping out of the woods and into the village, and the oxen are like rocks from the pastures, or the tops of ledges, they look so hard and tough and frosted over. You are like my monkey and the jack-inthe-box with your meetings. Some day you will get up a big one that will scare you to death." Tuesday, 1882. I hate to keep sending you letters instead of going to...
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 259pp., index, frontispiece. Green cloth with gilt decorations, gilt top-edge; moderate edgewear, corners bumped, slight crack at first signature, but binding overall holding up well. Previous owner's bookplate inside front.
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Good. No Jacket. Book. Octavo. (8) 259 (3) pp, tissue-protected frontis. First Edition, October 1911 [BAL 10922]. Ink Markings margin page 15. Ink inscription on ffep. Light external wear. Lightly foxed top and fore-text block, else, . 5.75" x 8.5". Green cloth with gilt-embossed geometric pattern on front board, and completely faded-rubbed gilt lettering to spine. In glassine wrapper. "Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism."
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