Down the Ravine
by [SOCIAL FICTION] [APPALACHIA] CRADDOCK, Charles Egbert (pseud. Mary Noailles Murfree)
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885. First Edition. First printing per BAL, with text dimensions 7" x 4-5/8" and 4pp publisher's catalogue titled "Out-Door Books." Octavo (18.5cm). Pictorial brown cloth, stamped in black, titled in gilt on spine; [iv],196,[6]pp; 4pp of publisher's ads at rear. Bookplate of the Greenfield Library Association. Sound and bright but rubbed, with a slight forward lean: around Very Good.
The prolific Murfree's third book, reprinted often (including 4 printings in the first year) but uncommon in the first edition. Murfree's first novel, "In the Tennessee Mountains," is a classic of Tennessee fiction and is considered by Boger to be the "granddaddy of all mountaineer tales ... [it] gave great impetus to the rise of the genre." The present title is missed by Wright and Boger. BAL 14802.
The prolific Murfree's third book, reprinted often (including 4 printings in the first year) but uncommon in the first edition. Murfree's first novel, "In the Tennessee Mountains," is a classic of Tennessee fiction and is considered by Boger to be the "granddaddy of all mountaineer tales ... [it] gave great impetus to the rise of the genre." The present title is missed by Wright and Boger. BAL 14802.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58960
- Title
- Down the Ravine
- Author
- [SOCIAL FICTION] [APPALACHIA] CRADDOCK, Charles Egbert (pseud. Mary Noailles Murfree)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- Appalachian Fiction Mountaineers Tennessee Smoky Mountains
- Bookseller catalogs
- The South; Social Fiction; Appalachia; Literature Before 1900;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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