Stover At Yale
by Owen Johnson
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-361. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, Inc, New York. 1940. 396 pgs. Reprint. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in red cloth boards with titles present to the spine and the front board. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. One of several books that make up the wonderful Lawrenceville Stories. Johnson wrote several novels and short stories revolving around Dink Stover and his prep school friends at the Lawrenceville School. Owen McMahon Johnson (August 27, 1878 January 27, 1952) was an American writer best remembered for his stories and novels cataloguing the educational and personal growth of the fictional character Dink Stover. The "Lawrenceville Stories" (The Prodigious Hickey, The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Skippy Bedelle, The Hummingbird) , set in the well-known prep school, invite comparison with Kipling's Stalky & Co. A 1950 film, The Happy Years, and a 1987 PBS mini-series were based on them. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67200
- Title
- Stover At Yale
- Author
- Owen Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Place of Publication
- E-361
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