BESIDE THE BONNIE BRIER BUSH.
by Maclaren, Ian (pseudonym of John Watson 1850 - 1907)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good light green cloth with a dark green border and decoration on front cover, gilt lettering on front and spine (gift card
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Dodd, Mead,, 1895.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good light green cloth with a dark green border and decoration on front cover, gilt lettering on front and spine (gift card from Christmas 1896 affixed to front pastedown, previous owner's name) . First American edition. The first, and most popular, book by this Scottish author and minister, published under the pen name of Maclaren. A collection of stories of Scottish rural life, which combined humor with pathos and a liberal use of Scots dialogue. The title of this book alludes to the Jacobite song ("There grows a bonnie brier bush in our Kailyard") and the term "Kailyard School" (kailyard is a small kale, or cabbage, kitchen garden attached to a cottage) was applied to a group of Scots writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were considered to be overly sentimental by their critics - or perhaps just too widely popular. 317 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84053
- Title
- BESIDE THE BONNIE BRIER BUSH.
- Author
- Maclaren, Ian (pseudonym of John Watson 1850 - 1907)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good light green cloth with a dark green border and decoration on front cover, gilt lettering on front and spine (gift card
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1895.
- Keywords
- vintage book, scots dialect, rural life, bestseller,
- Bookseller catalogs
- First book or first novel;
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