This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI April Meets The Merediths Blossom had its main street, its aristocracy, and its "new people." Sneed's Emporium and the Post Office, flanked on the right by the old Tavern, known as the Armes House, made the Hub of the town. Opposite this center of commerce a strip of rough common, shaded by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI April Meets The Merediths Blossom had its main street, its aristocracy, and its "new people." Sneed's Emporium and the Post Office, flanked on the right by the old Tavern, known as the Armes House, made the Hub of the town. Opposite this center of commerce a strip of rough common, shaded by spreading elms and dignified by a gaudily painted bandstand, served as a gathering place for the whole county. A row of rotting hitching posts outlined the common. Across from the Post Office was the First Baptist Church, of red brick and squatty in line. To the right of the common the main street straggled off for a quarter of a mile, then turned abruptly into the "station road." At the turn stood St. Stephen's, its weather-worn steeple almost hidden by the sheltering trees. Back of it, hedged in by barberry and overgrown with myrtle, rested past generations of Blossom folk. An opening through the hedge led to the Rectory garden. Blossom's "aristocracy," because it was made up of men who followed the sea, lived out toward the Cove. Those hardy ones had built their homes where, from the small-paned windows, their women folk c old watch the ships sail in behind the Point. It had come to be called the Lighthouse Road. Though men of the later generations had taken up other callings and had moved away, others became masters of the big ships which steamed in and out of Boston harbor and came to Blossom only once in a great while, others, like Lymus Lee's father and Captain Manny, had added to their acres and tilled the soil with only a wistful thought now and then seaward, though the Cove, once alive with sails, was deserted except for a few fishermen and the summer picnicers and the old stone lighthouse on Windover Point had been abandoned for...
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Good+ with no dust jacket. Red pictorial cloth, moderate edge wear, but tight Former owner's gift inscription in front, paper yellowed.; HB, octavo; 287 pages.
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Fair. 1921 Grosset & Dunlap. Cover different than Amazon stock photo. Cover and spine show significant wear. Front and back cover hinge cracked and tearing. Binding intact. Pages unmarked. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.
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Good in Fair jacket. Ex-Libris. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket is rubbed, scuffed and chipped. Orange boards have edgewear. Prior owner name on fep. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Book No names, clean text. Small tears to fore-edge margins pgs 25-28. Attractive Harriet R. Richards artwork. very good, vg chipped dj, pict. deep red cloth, NOT ex-lib 287 pgs.
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Harriet Roosevelt Richards. Very Good + No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Clean + bright, minimal wear, a few light spots on spine + gutter. Innards clean & tight, inscrpt. on FFEP by John Clair Minot, author of books about Bowdoin College, among others. 287 pp.
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Harriet Roosevelt Richards. Very Good in Good+ jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. First impression (no additional impressions listed; four other books listed by the author). The spine is slanted. The rear board is soiled. Gift inscription, dated March 8, 1922, is on the front free endpaper. Small spots of foxing to the title page. The binding is tight and the hinges are intact. The dust jacket is edgeworn, with frayed spine ends. The spine and rear panel are soiled. No title visible on the spine. The price, $1.75, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.