This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... on the stones that blistered them with cold; stealthy visits to the pawnshops. With a hand to mouth population prosperity is never so smiling that they can bid a long defiance to want. They are always the first to suffer. The stoppage of wages for one week means poverty the next. And so it was in Pinbury, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... on the stones that blistered them with cold; stealthy visits to the pawnshops. With a hand to mouth population prosperity is never so smiling that they can bid a long defiance to want. They are always the first to suffer. The stoppage of wages for one week means poverty the next. And so it was in Pinbury, and in sections of Middleford. That day Phil Maxon, calmly, philosophically as he did everything else, offered himself as operator for the new machinery. He was a man of quiet force, peacefully inclined, and not easily swerved from his purpose. He had little regard for hotheaded agitators, once his mind was made up, and he could hold his own physically against all comers, except Fray. So the American invention accomplished what all else had failed to do; Horrocks and Whitlake went alone into the deep workings next day, --the combination of the Three was broken up. Thenceforth Maxon was regarded as a traitor to Pinbury. The men passed him sourly by on their way through the mine, or growled remarks about turncoats in his hearing. He heard them with the same quiet air of indifference with whi!h he listened to the discussions of his mates on their journeys to and from the mine. Fray assailed him sometimes in fierce oratory, but he did not offer to molest him; and Phil's replies, when he made them, lost none of their weight by the quaint deliberateness of his preliminary expectoration. In the evenings he waited for the other two, and they went home together. A day or two later a man named Dilling, perhaps emboldened by Maxon's example, offered himself for the night shift, and was taken on. But apparently Fray felt less anxiety about his defection, --for they were never seen conversing, or even in company. Meade left the mine early on the first day of...
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Add this copy of A Daughter of the Pit to cart. $50.00, good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1903 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
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Good. First edition. Octavo. 351pp. Large, early rubberstamped numbers both pastedowns, heavy edgewear with slight loss at the corners and spine ends, boards rubbed and binding slightly cocked, sound but good only. An uncommon romantic novel about the daughter of English coal miners, noted for its interlocking shovel and pick-axe design by the noted firm Decorative Designers (signed in the image with two interlocking D's). According to the Online Archive of California, "During the heyday of decorated publishers' bindings no other American designer produced as many book covers as The Decorative Designers. Founded by Henry W. Thayer, a Brooklyn architect, and Emma Redington Lee, a young mural artist, in 1895, the firm turned out binding designs, dust jackets, book illustrations and advertising material until 1932 when the company and the marriage of Thayer and Miss Lee dissolved."
Add this copy of A Daughter of the Pit to cart. $63.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
