The roaring reports of the motor fell into abrupt silence, as the driver brought his car to a halt. "You signaled?" he called across the grind of set brakes. In the blending glare of the searchlights from the two machines, the gray one arriving and the limousine drawn to the roadside, the young girl stood, her hand still extended in the gesture which had stopped the man who now leaned across his wheel. "Oh, please," she appealed again. On either side stretched away the Long Island meadows, dark, soundless, apparently ...
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The roaring reports of the motor fell into abrupt silence, as the driver brought his car to a halt. "You signaled?" he called across the grind of set brakes. In the blending glare of the searchlights from the two machines, the gray one arriving and the limousine drawn to the roadside, the young girl stood, her hand still extended in the gesture which had stopped the man who now leaned across his wheel. "Oh, please," she appealed again. On either side stretched away the Long Island meadows, dark, soundless, apparently uninhabited. Only this spot of light broke the monotony of dreariness. A keen, chill, October wind sighed past, stirring the girl's delicate gown as its folds lay unheeded in the dust, fluttering her fur-lined cloak and shaking two or three childish curls from the bondage of her velvet hood. The driver swung himself down and came toward her with the unhasting swiftness of one trained to the unexpected.
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Add this copy of The Flying Mercury to cart. $14.00, very good condition, Sold by MONEYSAVER BOOKS rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from MIDDLETOWN, NY, UNITED STATES, published by A. L. Burt.
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Good; No jacket. 1910 A. L. Burt Company. Hardcover has green cloth-covered boards with cream spine and cover lettering and dark green decorations; round color paste-on illustration on the front cover. Color frontispiece and plates by Edmund Frederick; black & white decorations by Bertha Stewart. 195 pages. NOT ex-library. Hinges NOT cracked. Binding pulled a bit at title page and lightly cracked in one place near center. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at tips and spine ends. Title lettering on the front cover has lost most of the cream color; spine lettering has lost almost all of its color. Covers have moderate edge wear and surface rubbing. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1912, plus a later name in pencil. Pages lightly tanned, more so at periphery, but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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Edmund Frederick, Illustrator; Bertha Stuart, Decorations. Very Good+ No Dustjacket. Book Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1910. Very Good+/no dust jacket. Edmund Frederick, Illustrator; Bertha Stuart, Decorations. Clean decorated binding-green cloth boards with blind-stamped decoration on cover, plus clean unchipped circular paste-on color illustration, stamped white lettering (white lettering somewhat chipped). No fraying or wear to cloth. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean (slight foxing to endpapers). No names, writing or bookplates. Beautiful color illustrations by Edmund Frederick, with lovely page decorations and blind-stamped cover decoration by Bertha Stuart. 195 pages.
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