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Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
by MacLaren, Ian
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
$30.00$21.00
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. Brown cloth with beveled boards, gilt spine lettering and top edge, and deckled fore and bottom edges. Pp 304. Gift inscription on the ffep dated /96 (1896). A book of short stories published in 1894. It became a hugely popular bestseller and is considered to be part of the Kailyard School of Scottish literature. The stories in the book recount some of MacLaren's experiences as a Free Church minister in rural Perthshire and blends humor and pathos with racy Scots dialogue.; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9510
- Title
- Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
- Author
- MacLaren, Ian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1895
- Keywords
- Scotland, Scotland - manners and customs, Medicine in literature, Scotland - country life, Short Stories - Scottish, Logiealmond - Scotland - Parish
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian & Collectible Books; History: British, Russian & European;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
E Ridge fine Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lake Elsinore, California
About E Ridge fine Books
E Ridge Fine Books (2006) is an independent online bookstore and a member of IOBA. All books are carefully listed providing a description of condition and content
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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