Nearly all the stories in this volume were written at the same time and under the same impulse as those which compose its companion volume, Main-Travelled Roads-and the entire series was the result of a summer-vacation visit to my old home in Iowa, to my father's farm in Dakota, and, last of all, to my birthplace in Wisconsin. This happened in . I was living at the time in Boston, and had not seen the West for several years, and my return to the scenes of my boyhood started me upon a series of stories delineative of farm ...
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Nearly all the stories in this volume were written at the same time and under the same impulse as those which compose its companion volume, Main-Travelled Roads-and the entire series was the result of a summer-vacation visit to my old home in Iowa, to my father's farm in Dakota, and, last of all, to my birthplace in Wisconsin. This happened in . I was living at the time in Boston, and had not seen the West for several years, and my return to the scenes of my boyhood started me upon a series of stories delineative of farm and village life as I knew it and had lived it. I wrote busily during the two years that followed, and in this revised definitive edition of Main-Travelled Roads and its companion volume, Other Main-Travelled Roads (compiled from other volumes which now go out of print), the reader will find all of the short stories which came from my pen between and .
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VG- Not ex-lib. Possible 1st edition with 1910 latest date indicated, though no date on title page. Hardcover in gold cloth with gilt titles and decorative corn-designs on front and spine, large 12mo/small 8vo. viii + 350pp. G+ to VG-. Mild darkening to cloth on spine and occasionally elsewhere, 3" long x 1/4" patch of red ink to front cloth going though but not over decoration (see/request seller's scan); cloth otherwise quite clean and sharp with stampong bright on front, mildly dulled on spine. Touches of surface loss at lightly rubbed spine ends and tips of mildly turned corners (no creases). Spine slant toward lower end with binding tight and strong. Shelving soil to page edges, strong on uppers. Light uniform toning to clean, unmarked pages. Prev. owner's name and info with 1914 date upper ffep.