Verlag: Library of Congress, Washington, 2013
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
Softcover. Quarto; G+ Paperback; Brown spine with no text; Covers have some edgewear, some shelfwear, bending to corners of both covers; Textblock clean; 222 pp. 1336006. FP New Rockville Stock.
Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, 2010
ISBN 10: 1163975427 ISBN 13: 9781163975428
Anbieter: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback / softback. Zustand: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.
Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010
ISBN 10: 1164320688 ISBN 13: 9781164320685
Anbieter: Project HOME Books, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Erstausgabe
Zustand: Good. End homelessness in Philadelphia! Your purchase creates jobs! no dust jacket, shelf wear hardcover Used - Good Ships fast! 2010 - First Edition.
Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, 2010
ISBN 10: 1163975427 ISBN 13: 9781163975428
Anbieter: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback / softback. Zustand: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, 2010
ISBN 10: 1164320688 ISBN 13: 9781164320685
Anbieter: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardback. Zustand: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.
Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, 2010
ISBN 10: 1164320688 ISBN 13: 9781164320685
Anbieter: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardback. Zustand: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, 2024
ISBN 10: 1164320688 ISBN 13: 9781164320685
Anbieter: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, USA
hardcover. Zustand: New. Brand New! This item is printed on demand.
Verlag: Ferris & Leach, Philadelphia, 1902
Anbieter: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First edition. With the long secondary subtitle of "Being a Quaker Maiden's Account of her Experiences with Officers of the Continental Army-1777-1778." Inscribed in pencil on the front fee endpaper: "Amos, from Dan.* Xmas 1902 With the compliments of her relative. *Owen Wister." It appears the entire inscription is in Owen Wister's hand, that he wrote it as a gift inscription to be given by a friend to another friend. Perhaps unique signed by Wister, and an uncommon book in general with only one other copy available at the time of this writing. With the bookplate on the pastedown of Amos Tuck French, a prominent banker, director fo he Northern Pacific Railway, and New York society man. Owen Wister is duly famous as the author of The Virginian, the seminal Western.Sally Wister (1761-1804) is known for this journal, her firsthand nine-month account of living in the countryside near Philadelphia while it was occupied by the British during the American Revolution (see the Museum of the American Revolution's description of the book) . The journal is epistolary, in the form of letters to a friend (unsent as they would not reach her during the war). The family had fled Philadelphia as it was on the verge of occupation. While no skirmishes occurred at her farm, soldiers and prominent officers of the Continental Army, stayed with her and these interactions are documented, as well as the delights and mundanities of her daily life. Her letters were 48 pages in all; they remained in the Wister house until 1830 and weren't published in full until this volume. Yellow cloth with blue illustration and lettering, red accents to the soldier on then spine. Roughcut pages. A very good copy with soiling/mottling to yellow cloth. Spine slightly clocked and spine cloth slightly rumpled Light foxing/browning to rear of half-title page only and title page, probably due to contact with the glossy frontis, otherwise pages are clean. A unique copy with Owen Wister's signature and declaration of his relationship to this early other Wister.