Ramona
by Helen Jackson
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Templeton, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Book. Good. Hardcover. Not Signed. 1st Edition. Roberts Brothers, 1886. Boston. Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition, Second Printing. Green cloth decorated Gold Gilt sunflowers and lettering on cover and spine. Six leaves of advertisements at end. Four wood-engravings in the text of the last chapter. Book has rubbing to bottom tips and especially bottom back cover and of spine. Text block intact and firm even with partial split of front gutter. Chipping at extremities & bottom with slight lean. Second issue with floral green endpapers and the last chapter including images of Ramona's house. Title/copywrite page missing, issue determination made on all the other descriptors of the book..
Synopsis
Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson, is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in Southern California, suffering racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the Christian Union on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely popular. Overall, it has had more than 300 printings, been made into four film versions, and has been performed as an outdoor play annually since 1923.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Winding Road Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000348
- Title
- Ramona
- Author
- Helen Jackson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Roberts Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- Literary Fiction Native Americans
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About Winding Road Books
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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- Leaves
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