Skip to content

Adirondack Tales (Five Volume Set)

Adirondack Tales (Five Volume Set)

Click for full-size.

Adirondack Tales (Five Volume Set)

by Murray, W. H. H. ; Murray, William Henry Harrison

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, corners rounded, owner signature in two volumes. Some uncut pages.
Seller
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Selkirk, New York, United States
Item Price
$750.00
Or just $730.00 with a
Bibliophiles Club Membership
$6.00 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 10 to 14 days

More Shipping Options

Payment Methods Accepted

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • PayPal

About This Item

Springfield, MA: Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, corners rounded, owner . signature in two volumes. Some uncut pages.. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. [Springfield, MA: Springfield Printing and Binding Company], 1897-98. In five volumes uniformly bound in burgundy cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spines. First four volumes have same photograph portrait of the author. Vol. I: The Story of The Man Who Didn't Know Much; Vol. II: The Story of the Man Who Missed It, The Story That the Keg Told Me, and Who Were They?; Vol. III: Mamelons and Ungava, with Supplementary Notes; Vol. IV: Stories of Description and Humor; Vol. V: Sermons, Lectures and Addresses. A compilation of "Adirondack Murray's" writings, covering both his fictional tales set in the Adirondacks and Labrador Peninsula, some favorite sermons from his years as a Congregationalist minister in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and stories featuring "John Norton the Trapper". Murray's writings helped popularize the Adirondacks as a health and vacation destination. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the specific copy you purchased!

Details

Bookseller
Old Saratoga Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
34589
Title
Adirondack Tales (Five Volume Set)
Author
Murray, W. H. H. ; Murray, William Henry Harrison
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, corners rounded, owner signature in two volumes. Some uncut pages.
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Self Published
Place of Publication
Springfield, MA
Date Published
1898
Keywords
ADIRONDACKS Fiction
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction;
Note
May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

Terms of Sale

Old Saratoga Books

We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.

About the Seller

Old Saratoga Books

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York

About Old Saratoga Books

Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Uncut Pages
'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the...
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...
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...

Frequently asked questions

This Book’s Categories

tracking-