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And One to Grow On: Recollections of a Maine Boyhood
by John Gould
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
William Morrow & Co., New York, 1949. Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 253 pp. Text clean, unmarked and lightly sunned with no prior owner attribution. B/W drawings throughout by F. Wentworth Saunders. "Salty, mellow, hilarious in the special Down East manner of which John Gould is master...the story of what it meant to be a boy in Maine a few decades ago..." Gould wrote a weekly column for the editorial page of the Christian science Monitor and edited the Lisbon Enterprise, one of the nation's outstanding small weeklies. His casual, good humored, piquant observations are a guarantee of real Down East humor and charm.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100291
- Title
- And One to Grow On
- Author
- John Gould
- Illustrator
- F. Wentworth Saunders
- Format/Binding
- Grey cloth over boards with title and author's name in red on spine. Headband and tailpiece lightly frayed.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Morrow & company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Pages
- 253
- Size
- 5 1/2 X 8 1/4
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Maine boyhood
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
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