The Blue Flower - Stories
by Henry Van Dyke
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Jim Thorpe , Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Chas Scribner's Sons, 1902. Later Printing dtd May 1909. Blue Binding w/Deco Cover, 299 rough cut pgs w/gilt tep, 8 beautiful color illus. Owners name on fep dtd 1924. Covers Clean w/slight spine edge wear, top corner bump, slight spine crease, 9 short stories described by the Author as ". the idea of the search for inward happiness, which all men who are really alive are following." Some pgs are marked in story #VI - The Other Wise Man, other story pgs are Clean. Full pg color plates taken from drawings by J.R. Weguelin, F.V. DuMoud, Howard Pyle & others. Antiquarian/Fiction Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by DuMond, Pyle, Et.al.
Synopsis
Sometimes short stories are brought together like parcels in a basket. Sometimes they grow together like blossoms on a bush. Then, of course, they really belong to one another, because they have the same life in them.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Vintage Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003399
- Title
- The Blue Flower - Stories
- Author
- Henry Van Dyke
- Illustrator
- DuMond, Pyle, Et.al
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Chas Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- FICTION, SHORT STORIES, ART, PROSE, ANTIQUARIAN, FAITH, GOD
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
Terms of Sale
The Vintage Bookstore
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About the Seller
The Vintage Bookstore
Biblio member since 2008
Jim Thorpe , Pennsylvania
About The Vintage Bookstore
We are an internet only seller specializing in used, rare and out of print items. Lots of Children's books, Poetry, Literature and Antiquarian titles in Decorative Bindings.All books are on premises and usually ship, carefully wrapped, within 24 hours.
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- 12mo
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- Jacket
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