John Norton's Thanksgiving Party and Other Stories
by W. H. H. Murray [Adirondack Murray]
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: DeWolfe & Fiske Company Publishers , c.1886 Reprint. Hard cover, 8vo, in spruce blue cloth with pictorial cover design blocked in black and gold, featuring a camp scene, canoe and inset with a stag's head. Inscribed Christmas 1913 in old ink. 1 page publisher's ads at front, (no author portrait), 231 pp. Includes the Stories: "John Norton's Thanksgiving Party, " "Henry Herbert's Thanksgiving," "A Strange Visitor," "The Shadow on the Wall," "Was it Suicide?" "The Old Beggar's Dog" and "Who was He?" CONDITION: Near Fine. Some rubbing at front Joint. Otherwise, clean, tight and bright. ** By the popular nineteenth-century author, minister, lecturer and promoter of Outdoor Life, Connecticut-born William Henry Harrison Murray (aka Adirondack Murray, 1840-1904) these humorous and moral tales are somewhat reminiscent of Mark Twain. OCLC 8416940 Plum and Scribner 7333. Wright 3911.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8994
- Title
- John Norton's Thanksgiving Party and Other Stories
- Author
- W. H. H. Murray [Adirondack Murray]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Publisher
- DeWolfe & Fiske Company Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- c.1886
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