A Marsh Island

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885. First Edition. Blanck's second printing, with A Marsh Island priced at $1.25 in rear ads. 12mo (18.5cm). In original publisher's threepiece cloth binding, with dark green over boards and light green back, stamped in black on front and gold on spine; plain endpapers; list of works by Jewett facing title page, and 12-page publisher's catalogue… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 292, 12 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in two shades of green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Second printing, with Marsh Island priced at $1.25 in rear ads. Minor shelfwear. Light soiling to spine, with fraying of cloth at head and tail. Light scuffing to front… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885. First edition, first printing. [ii], 292 pp., [1] f. (blank); 12 pp. (ads). 1 vols. 8vo. Olive green cloth shelfback, titled in gilt, darker green cloth boards, upper cover titled in green. Ends bumped, ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown, lower pastedown with past ghost, circulation slip crudely removed from flyleaf. Good plus, bright clean… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1885). Early printing. [iii], 4-292 pp. + [2 (blank)].Small 8vo. Bound in two olive and dark green cloth with black and gilt lettering. Light wear to binding; tiniest portion of cornertips of 15 or so pages gently bumped; a very good copy. Dr. Don James McLaughlin at the University of Tulsa has proposed that Jewett's work… Read more about this item

1885. JEWETT, Sarah Orne. A MARSH ISLAND. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1885. First edition, first printing. 8vo., decorative green cloth, in two shades. Bookplate, gift inscription. Spine just soiled, with a hint of bowing, shelfwear to the extremes. A short edge-tear to one leaf has been discreetly tape-repaired, with a touch of offsetting to facing leaf. A tight,… Read more about this item

Houghton, Mifflin and Company/The Riverside Press, 1885. Hardcover. Covers rubbed; backstrip slightly sun-darkened; extremities frayed; pages faintly edge-browned; previous owners notation on front endpaper; otherwise very good condition. BAL 10885. 7 titles in writings list. . 292p. Third printing.

Paperback / softback. New. <p>Toward the end of her life, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) made a surprising disclosure. Instead of the critically lauded <i>The Country of the Pointed Firs</i>, Jewett declared her “best story” to be <i>A Marsh Island</i> (1885), a little-known novel. Why? One reason is that it demonstrates Jewett’s range. Known primarily for her vignettes, Jewett… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The A Marsh Island.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The A Marsh Island.

Paperback / softback. New. <p>Toward the end of her life, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) made a surprising disclosure. Instead of the critically lauded <i>The Country of the Pointed Firs</i>, Jewett declared her “best story” to be <i>A Marsh Island</i> (1885), a little-known novel. Why? One reason is that it demonstrates Jewett’s range. Known primarily for her vignettes, Jewett… Read more about this item

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New.