MANITOU
by [BATES], Margret Holmes
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: Carlon & Hollenbeck, 1881. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 222, Bound in brown cloth printed in gilt and stamped in blind, all edges red. Hinges little tender, a very good copy. The author first book. Wright III, 403. Bates was born in 1844 and lived in Indianapolis. Her first novel, "Manitou" (1881), was written at the urgent request of her son. It embodies a legend connected with the beautiful little lake of that name in northern Indiana, in the vicinity of which Mrs. Bates lived for several years before her marriage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Life Books Inc (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55835
- Title
- MANITOU
- Author
- [BATES], Margret Holmes
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Carlon & Hollenbeck
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1881
- Keywords
- lit
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Life Books Inc
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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