Main-Travelled Roads

Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed first edition, cloth issue. (No additional printings indicated and sheets bulking to 9/16" rather than 7/8".) Inscribed to Minna Smith on front free endpaper, "My Friendly Critic - much valued. [signed] Hamlin Garland Roxbury. Nov. 3/91." Smith and her sister Gertrude were minor Boston authors close to… Read more about this item

Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, cloth issue. Silver-tone gilt-stamped blue cloth. Pages age-toned, gutter starting before title page, small dampstain on topedge of last few pages and cloth lightly bubbled, else a good to very good copy. Author's first work of fiction, preceded a year earlier by a play.

Cambridge and Chicago: Stone and KImball, 1893. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Stone and Kimball edition, originally published by Arena in 1891. Decorative green cloth gilt. Introduction by W.D. Howells. Decorations by H.T. Carpenter. Gift inscription, modest overall wear, near fine. Author's first work of fiction, preceded a year earlier by a play.

Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1891. First edition of the author's second book. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free patterned endpaper, "To my friend Hird whose encouragement was so timely. With fraternal best wishes. Hamlin Garland Boston June 9/91." In very good condition. Bookplate. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell… Read more about this item

New American Library, Signet. #L1181. Very Good+. 1962. 1st Printing. Hardcover. B000RBOP58 . Pictorial hardcovers in Very Good++ condition. The binding is tight, pages are clean & unmarked, light foxing to the covers. Contents: Introduction by W. D. Howells -- A branch road -- Up the coolly -- Among the corn-rows -- The return of a private… Read more about this item

New American Library, 1962. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1962. Third Printing. 269 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrative cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Brown marks overall.

Cambridge and Chicago, Stone and Kimball, 1893., 1893. First edition thus. 8vo. Introduction by W.D. Howells. Decorations by H.Y. Carpenter. Title page printed in orange and black. Original gilt stamped tan cloth, spine and upper cover with gilt stamped designs of tasseled cornstalks, t.e.g., uncut (spine darkened, soiling). Good-very good. Number 39 of 110 large paper copies, signed by the… Read more about this item

T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Burgundy cloth, silver lettering. The volume is bumped at the spine ends and corners, has some soiling on the front panel, light abrasions to the joints and there is a mild spine lean. The endpapers have spots of soiling and the text leaves are lightly age darkened. … Read more about this item

Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1891. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; purple and cream patterned endpapers; 260,[4]pp; 4pp publisher's ads at rear; frontispiece portrait. Stamp of the A.L.S. Circulating Library to front pastedown. Ex-library, sound but rubbed, occasional foxing and fingersoil: Good or better. Six short stories about the Midwest "Middle Border"… Read more about this item

Arena Publishing Company, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. 260 pages. Short stories. The first work of fiction by the author who would later win the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the biography A Daughter of the Middle Border. First edition (first printing). Wear to edges and spine a bit cocked, thus a very good copy; no dust jacket. Former owner's bookplate… Read more about this item

Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, cloth issue. Some foxing and age-toning to the pages, with modest rubbing at the spine ends, and thus very good. Author's first work of fiction, preceded a year earlier by a play.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1919. Border edition. Hardcover. Very good. 6 x 8 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean, spine sunned, minor wear. Binding tight. PO's name on pastedown, text unmarked. Fic. Stax.

Bison, 1995. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harper 1899, Sunset edition. (Hardcover) 299pp. Good to very good, no dust jacket. Frontispiece, photograph plate. (Fiction).

Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good or better in very good dustwrapper. Clean text in clean cloth covers with silver stamped lettering, clean dustwrapper is worn with very light chips on back edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described… Read more about this item

Fawcwtt Premier, 1961. First edition thus. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Premier printing, Spetember 1961, near fine tight and clean pocket books shows just a hint of wear. 192 pages with introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. Nice copy of "..these brooding, realistic stories of of midwestern farm life at the end of the nineteenth century...:.

Cambridge and Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1893. publisher's cloth, gilt on cover and spine, top edge gilt. 8vo. publisher's cloth, gilt on cover and spine, top edge gilt. (viii), 251, (2) pages. First edition. Spine age-darkened, minor soiling to boards. Ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Minor rubbing to spine and boards. A good copy. Printed by… Read more about this item

Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company. 1970. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. 0675093759 . Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Small closed tears on spine crown and bottom front panel. Foxing on text block edges. Shelfwear on panels. .

TORONTO, CANADA: BETWEEN THE LINES. NEW EDITION . Fine. PAPERBACK. 2002.

Signet (New American Library), 1962. Good mass market paperback. Mass Market Paper Back. Good.