Excerpt: ...Mrs. Sickles and her companions; he turned her down the beach; he talked to her in rapid snaps about the sea, the sky, the sand, and before she knew it he had driven her alongside of Captain Abner. Then, with what might have been compared to a bark of satisfaction, he bounced away to join the others, who were looking for shells. "In about ten minutes Sam Twitty's port eye told him that Captain Abner and the toll-gate woman 183 were approaching, but in Abner there were signs of a disposition to fall back. In an ...
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Excerpt: ...Mrs. Sickles and her companions; he turned her down the beach; he talked to her in rapid snaps about the sea, the sky, the sand, and before she knew it he had driven her alongside of Captain Abner. Then, with what might have been compared to a bark of satisfaction, he bounced away to join the others, who were looking for shells. "In about ten minutes Sam Twitty's port eye told him that Captain Abner and the toll-gate woman 183 were approaching, but in Abner there were signs of a disposition to fall back. In an instant he had bounded between them and was showing shells to the widow. Then, letting her go on by herself, he turned sharply upon Abner. "'Well, ' said he, their heads close together, 'what did she say? Is she all right?' "Captain Abner threw a glance over the water as if his soul were yearning for the fancied possibilities of Thompsontown. 'Oh, it's all right enough, so far as she counts, ' said he. 'I went straight at it, and put the whole thing afore her. I told her about the house and the two parts to it and what they was for, and she said that was charmin'. And I told her about the king conch-shell and the gilded idol, and she said she thought either one of them would be jes lovely, and nothin', she thought, could be better on mantelpieces than gilded idols and king conch-shells. And everything else was jes as slick and smooth as if she was slidin' off the stocks. She's good-lookin' enough, Sam, but she ain't got no mind, and I didn't fix up that house, and bother myself year in and year out a-gettin' it all right, to take it and give it to a woman what's got no mind. She'd be jes as well satisfied to see me a-settin' up on the mantelpiece as if the gilded idol or the king conch-shell was there.' "'And she don't suit you?' asked Sam, eagerly. "'No, sir, ' replied the other; 'she don't suit.' "'All right!' exclaimed the ever-ready Sam; 'jes you wait where you are one minute.' In less than that time the agile Sam had rounded up Miss Denby...
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Add this copy of John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein to cart. $6.43, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
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Add this copy of John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein to cart. $20.00, good condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1902 by Scribner's,.
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Good. Illustrated with eight black and white plates. First edition. Starting to separate at the hinges, but still firmly attached, brief gift inscription (in pencil) on front free endpaper, else good or better in green, decorated cloth, top edge gilt. No dust jacket.
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Add this copy of John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein to cart. $25.00, good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1902 by Scribners.
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Good. First edition. Good hardcover. Illustrated. Hinges cracked. Name inside front cover. Water stain on a couple of pages. Spine lean. Cornesr bent. Edges of spine rubbed. Green cover. Top edges gilt. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Add this copy of John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein to cart. $26.99, fair condition, Sold by Resource Books, LLC rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from East Granby, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1902 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Fair in No jacket. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First edition (1902). Illustrated with black and white plates. Worn but sound copy in green pictorial cloth lettered in gilt and with a delightful undersea motif on the front cover in lighter green, gilt, silver gilt and brick red, 365 pages. Covers rubbed at the edges, lettering and cover illustration bright and clear, lending library bookplate on front pastedown with evidence of pocket removal on rear pastedown with no other ex-library evidence, sound binding, some faint foxing to illustrations, first few pages have far lower corner neatly clipped off (does not interfere with text), pages generally very clean with a couple of instances of old and faint transparent staining to margins. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.
