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. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...nights, and I made it a subject for prayer, but I didn't seem able to pray my way through it." "Why, Mother!" The daughterin-law's tone was distressed, bewildered, incredulous. The Little Old Lady laughed. "Oh, bless your heart, it didn't last more than a few days. I got my bearings then and saw that there ...
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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. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...nights, and I made it a subject for prayer, but I didn't seem able to pray my way through it." "Why, Mother!" The daughterin-law's tone was distressed, bewildered, incredulous. The Little Old Lady laughed. "Oh, bless your heart, it didn't last more than a few days. I got my bearings then and saw that there were millions of New York flats and not a decent-sized pantry in one of them. Somebody else just naturally has to keep your provisions for you. I understand that now, but isn't it awful!" The distress had faded from the daughter's face, but the bewilderment lingered. New York ways were the only ways she knew. The Little Old Lady realized that and made concession to her ignorance. "Of course it doesn't seem awful to you, dearie. You never lived in the country. I reckon even in the country folks don't live now as they did when I was a girl back home; but, you see, I can't get rid of my old ideas and standards, and every time I see Bella whipping off to buy a pint of cream or a loaf of bread or a pound of butter because company's come I think about the way folks dropped in on us down in Southern Indiana, and I have to laugh. I can't help, it, Sally. You'd laugh, too, if you had ever lived the old way. Can't you remember anything about your grandpa's, Robert?" The head of the family had put aside his paper. "Not much," he said, "only that it was a heavenly place for a very small boy, and that Grandmother was an angel and the cooky-jar was never empty." "Empty! Well, I should say not--not so long as there were grandchildren or neighbours' children to make cookies for! But even when you were down there things were changed from what they had been when I was a child. "The way-back times are the ones I love best to think about, the times before...
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Add this copy of Our Little Old Lady to cart. $9.74, good condition, Sold by Bookmans rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Spellman Press.
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Add this copy of Our Little Old Lady to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1919 by Doubleday, Page & Company.
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Very Good. First edition. 12mo. Half green cloth, papercovered boards with illustrated label laid on front. Small bookstore label on rear pastedown, extremities toned and worn, still very good.
Add this copy of Our Little Old Lady to cart. $27.44, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
Add this copy of Our Little Old Lady to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Kubik Fine Books Ltd rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dayton, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1919 by Doubleday, Page & Co.
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165p. A very good hardcover book in a good dustjacket. Jacket chipped on edges, jacket price-clipped, otherwise clean and tight. "You will fall in love with the little old lady as everybody in the book does. She recalls for you her own youth, and her own charming love story, and with it, the plainer, more wholesome, and happier days of the time which exists for us now only in the reminiscences of "our little old ladies."
Add this copy of Our Little Old Lady to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by DogStar Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lancaster, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1919 by Doubleday, Page & Company.
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Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 165 pages; Solid clean copy in original pictorial dust jacket. Bound in original green quarter cloth with titles in black to spine and gray paper covered boards with small pictorial title label to the upper board. Color pictorial dust jacket is rubbed and nicked at edges with several short closed tears and a bit of mild shelf soiling. binding just a little shaken in the spine. Illustrated with glossy frontis. Uncommon in dust jacket. VG/VG-
