Grandfather Stories
by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Hollis Center, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1955 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Dust jacket has moderate edge chips and soils. 312 pages of stories by "One of America's best-loved authors [whi] re-creates with captivating charm the wonder of growing up in Upstate New York in the 1880s.".
Synopsis
Grandfather Stories is a book of 23 historical tales by journalist and novelist Samuel Hopkins Adams. Three were originally published in Woman's Day and 15 in The New Yorker. Most of the stories take place in upper New York State, along the Erie Canal. Those stories told by his grandfather occur in the 1820s; others, when Adams was a boy in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Details
- Seller
- UHR Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 102222
- Title
- Grandfather Stories
- Author
- Adams, Samuel Hopkins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- grandfather stories, Samuel Hopkins Adams, upstate new york 1880s, 19th century boyhood new york state, biography, autobiography
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Hollis Center, Maine
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A large collection of about 45,000 books, one third of which are in the medical area.
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- Jacket
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- Book Club Edition
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