MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY by Wister, Owen ; H. T. Dunn [ Illustrator] - 1911

Miravista Interactive, 2020. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Macmillan, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Good/No Jacket. Yellow cloth covered boards with red and black illustration on the front cover. Red text outlined in gilt. Previous owner's name on inside front cover. Black and white frontispiece. Illustrations by H. T. Dunn. By the author of The Virginian. Preface - 22 pp. 9 full page black and white illustrations. 2 of the 11 original illustrations are missing at pages 56 and 226. Water stain at bottom outside corner of the first 40 pages. Two small pieces of cloth missing, one on the edge of the back cover and one at the back of the cover near the spine. Both holes are about 1/4 in. in diameter.

New York Macmillan 1911, 1911. Paperback. Fair. 2nd thus VG

The Macmillan Company, 1928. Hardcover. Good. 1928. New Uniform Edition. 285 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. Light cover soil. Scattered foxing. Complete with all 12 plates by H. T. Dunn. Tales of cattle country and the American West by author of The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains. Original tan cloth with Western design in red and black. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by Dunn, H. T. . 8vo. 317pp + 8 pages of publisher ads.

Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, No date. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: H.T. Dunn. 318 pages, last blank, preface by author, 8 pages following advertising Macmillan's Colonial Library Series. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece by H.T. Dunn -- protected by tissue guard. Within the text there are another in 11 black-and-white illustrations by the same illustrator. Dark blue boards with self embossed design on the front panel with gilt writing both on the front panel and spine. Bumping, rubbing and fraying to the book spine and book edges with underlying board again visible. Shelfwear to both the top and bottom book edges and there is a small area to the rear top book edge in which the underlying board is visible. Heavy browning and foxing to the paper edges. There has been a little rubbing to the book cloth. Offset tanning and foxing to the endpapers and internal pages have become very slightly tanned. Some handling marks… Read More

NY: Macmillan, 1911. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. Very good or better with light wear. Previous owner name on front pastedown

New York: Macmillan Company, 1911. The sequel to Wister's prototype novel of the American West, "The Virginian." This is a Good only copy of the First Edition. Tan decorative cloth binding with red, black and gold (matches design of "The Virginian"). Spine has darkened, and the corners are bumped. 317 pages, with 4 pages of publisher's adverts in the rear; text clean. Unfortunately, the front gutter is splitting and although holding, the binding is loose. Due to the condition issue, Quercus offers this as a BINDING COPY, in need of repair or restoration. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

MP3 Audio CD. Members of the Family I HAPPY-TEETH Scipio Le Moyne lay in bed, held together with bandages. His body had need for many bandages. A Bar-Circle-Zee three-year-old had done him violent mischief at the forks of Stinking Water. But for the fence, Scipio might have swung clear of the wild, rearing animal. When they lifted his wrecked frame from the ground one of them had said:— “A spade’s all he’ll need now.” Overhearing this with some still unconquered piece of his mind, Scipio made one last remark: “I ain’t going to die for years and years.” Upon this his head had rolled over, and no further statements came from him for—I forget how long. Yet somehow, we all believed that last remark of his. “Since I’ve known him,” said the Virginian, “I have found him a truthful man.” “Which don’t mean,” Honey Wiggin put in, “that he can’t lie when he ought to.” Judge Henry always… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Members of the Family I HAPPY-TEETH Scipio Le Moyne lay in bed, held together with bandages. His body had need for many bandages. A Bar-Circle-Zee three-year-old had done him violent mischief at the forks of Stinking Water. But for the fence, Scipio might have swung clear of the wild, rearing animal. When they lifted his wrecked frame from the ground one of them had said:— “A spade’s all he’ll need now.” Overhearing this with some still unconquered piece of his mind, Scipio made one last remark: “I ain’t going to die for years and years.” Upon this his head had rolled over, and no further statements came from him for—I forget how long. Yet somehow, we all believed that last remark of his. “Since I’ve known him,” said the Virginian, “I have found him a truthful man.” “Which don’t mean,” Honey Wiggin put in, “that he can’t lie when he ought to.” Judge Henry always… Read More