Snow-Bound, A Winter Idyl by Whittier John Greenleaf - 1906

52 Pages.This wonderful piece of poetry's exterior has worn areas on all four corners and at the top and bottom of the spine. The front and back covers have some rubbing or wearing in places on both. The interior book has a former owner's name on the first pages but otherwise has no visible extraneous markings in the book and thus the printing is in a very well preserved condition.This book will be carefully wrapped up and then boxed and then shipped right away to you from here in New Jersey and comes with our utmost gratitude for your order.

Lulu.com, 2018. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Lulu.com, 2018-08-17. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover ( 4.75 X 7 ) in brown embossed boards with gold gilt titles in very good condition, brown clean end papers with well preserved inner hinges, 1868 Edition (1868,c1865) with 52 pages and faded inscription dated 1876 on 1st blank page after FEP, a very good clean copy with slight cover rubs

Windham, CT: hawthorn House, 1939. cloth, slipcase. Hawthorn House. 16mo. cloth, slipcase. 43, (3) pages. Limited to 700 copies. Decorations by Ray Holden. Exlibrary, else a fine copy in near fine publisher's slipcase.

Windham, CT: hawthorn House, 1939. cloth, slipcase. Hawthorn House. 16mo. cloth, slipcase. 43, (3) pages. Limited to 700 copies. Decorations by Ray Holden. Lacking the slipcase, else a near fine copy.

Paperback / softback. New. Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl is a classic narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, famed for capturing a period in American history already ebbing away. This edition includes twenty illustrations by famed artists of the era. The narrative consists of a family living in what would later be known as the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, a large home in rural Massachusetts. During a harsh winter, as a blizzard of snow rages outside for three days, the family are snowed in and take to telling one another stories. The atmosphere of warmth, conviviality and rural solidarity were felt to depict an era which was fast becoming history - as the USA rapidly modernized, its homely past dissipated. This edition includes the author's introductory preface, wherein he attributes inspiration for Snow-Bound to his family members. His boyhood, which he describes as a time of isolation from the wider world, was the quintessence of country life; Whittier mentions days out fishing, hunting… Read More

Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good. Gilt-stamped forest-green cloth, 51 pp., engraved frontispiece portrait, title page vignette, headpiece and decorative initial. First edition, second state, of Whittier's fantastically popular and oft-reprinted narrative poem. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, with head of spine chipped at frayed, mild fraying at corners; page edges tanned, discoloration to endpapers, gift inscription (dated 1867) on front free endpaper, short closed tear at fore-edge of one leaf.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Cloth. Good+. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1867 printing. A Good + copy. 12mo., 52 pp., illustrated with a portrait frontispiece with guard. Bound in the publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt. Small gouge on the spine's rear joint. Tide line along the bottom edge of the text block. A Good + copy.

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