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THEN CAME CAROLINE, #1 in series.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1922. Hardcover - The first book in this three volume series - the story of the youngest daughter of an impoverished Southern family, which begins with Caroline as an imaginative and impulsive ten year old in their decaying Virginia mansion. It follows her as the family moves to Colorado, along with their servants, in the hopes that the father, a physicain and former Major in the Army, will be able to regain his health. llustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three glossy internal plates by M. L. Greer. 306 pp. plus 2 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated khaki cloth (slight spine slant, prev owner's name, other minor wear)
Book ID: 69921More details Price: $21.50 -
DANNY'S PARTNER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1923). Hardcover first edition - When a Civil War veteran who had lost his leg in the fighting and who had been living in the poorhouse comes into an unexpected inheritance, he heads West towards Colorado - and takes 9 year old Danny and his dog with him. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three internal plates. 257 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated blue cloth (previous owner's name dated Oct 1923)
Book ID: 74045More details Price: $19.50 -
POLLY AND ELEANOR: The Polly Brewster Series #2.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1922.) dj. Hardcover - An interesting series written for older girls, featuring Polly Brewster, who grew up on a ranch in Colorado, and her friend Eleanor Maynard. In this claim jumpers attempt to steal the gold mine the girls had discovered, and Polly and Eleanor accompany Anne to New York City where she will be teaching school, Illustrated with 4 glossy plates by H. S. Barbour. Lists to #8 on back flap of dj. 305 pp plus 8 pp of publisher's advertisements with more series listed on the inside of the dj.
Condition: Very good+ in blue cloth with silver and dark blue lettering in a good dust jacket (previous owner's name on front endpaper, edgewear to the dj, chip at top of spine.)
Book ID: 36442More details Price: $20.00 -
IN CONSTANT FLIGHT: Stories
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, several of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, "framed by the outposts of the new American West - Berkeley, Santa Fe, Boulder." 59 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj, very short closed tear)
Book ID: 35854More details Price: $15.00 -
RENDER UP THE BODY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to the pages and edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 89521More details Price: $24.50 -
RENDER UP THE BODY.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90775More details Price: $21.50 -
THE WAY TO THE WEST: Essays on the Central Plains.
Edition: First printing.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A history of the great migration of Cheyenne Indians and Anglo pioneers onto the arid Central Plains of Kansas, Nebraska and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. SIGNED on the title page A title in the Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture series. Illustrated with many photographs, maps , extensive notes, bibliography, index. x, 244 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-16522.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67944More details Price: $50.00