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New York : A. L. Burt. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Gold-stamped deep red cloth. Gilt top edge. "The Home Library" edition. 2 tiny brown stains lower fore-edge. Uncredited b/w artwork, 12 pgs ads. No names, clean text. Solid. 6401 shelf
May Martin; or The Money Diggers, a Green Mountain Tale by Thompson, D.P - 1835
by Thompson, D.P
May Martin; or The Money Diggers, a Green Mountain Tale
by Thompson, D.P
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- Hardcover
- first
Montpelier VT.: E P Walton and Son., 1835. First edition. Act of Congress entry 1835.. Hard cover. Poor. No dust jacket. Missing front board. Separated first free end paper. Prior owner inked in script: "Sarah Jane Morse, Newbury NH", twice. Age-toning, soiling, to text pages. Spine fabric loose, shredded.. 1 231 p. Stitched binding. Brown leather-like material over board. Lightly rounded text page corners. 14 cm. Published with no contents, no index, no bibliography. Set in a small early 19th century rural Vermont settlement, the reader is introduced to a young man and a young women, about to part as he must go to Massachusetts for a unknown period of time. Their's is a sprouting romance. On a walk near a trail, they quietly witness a horseman whipping his mount. The horse falls dead, and he pushes the beast over a cliff into the nearby gulf, and continues his travel on foot. Mysteries, apparitions, romance, news from other colonies are themes. The charm in feel and handling of this original printing and early textured inking and durable paper is not present in facsimile reprints. All pages present: not originally presented with Contents, Index, Bibliography. The story is fiction.
- Bookseller Hedgehog's Whimsey Books (US)
- Format/Binding Hard cover
- Book Condition Used - Poor. No dust jacket. Missing front board. Separated first free end paper. Prior owner inked in script: "Sarah Jane Morse,
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First edition. Act of Congress entry 1835.
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher E P Walton and Son.
- Place of Publication Montpelier VT.
- Date Published 1835
- Keywords small early 19th century rural Vermont settlement|Mysteries, apparitions, romance, news from other colonies|Vermont setting|Massachusetts, New Hampshire|Fiction|Prior owner: "Sarah Jane Morse, Newbury NH"