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. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...the night-world, quiet of foot as passing clouds, --so grown, so menaced, so madrigaled, but grown stern, erect, vastthewed, beautiful, and eager for the anguish of holding up the sky. A DECEMBER SPRING This Kansas weather trips up even the elect. Its whimsies are delicious. You never know what a day will ...
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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. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...the night-world, quiet of foot as passing clouds, --so grown, so menaced, so madrigaled, but grown stern, erect, vastthewed, beautiful, and eager for the anguish of holding up the sky. A DECEMBER SPRING This Kansas weather trips up even the elect. Its whimsies are delicious. You never know what a day will bring forth; and sufficient unto the day is;ie climate thereof. Some, even many, Derate this facility in adjusting the therjeter, talking in loud tones about rible chungeableness." Now, this ion could be brought against equal force, though, in a spirit of chivalry, I would certainly hope no man would be guilty of the impropriety of referring to woman's facile mood as "horribly changeable." That would be gross. Let us not believe it of any man. Woman's many-moodedness is among her charms, --one without which she would be appreciably poorer in that generous wealth of fascination of which she is mistress. We men love variableness in her; and why should we laud in women what we berate in weather? This is illogicality, the thing men accuse this Kansas weather of. Let us be consistent, seeing it is so easy. The surprises of the weather enamor me. And when Winter has set his foot on our road sturdily walking like some unimaginative pedestrian and when he shakes snowflakes from his mantle and puffs icy winds into the face of human kind and makes the birds seek the sheltering woodlands, then to have him, for all his bluster, pushed off the path and Spring come smiling along as hunting for violets--honestly, this tickles my funny-bone. I am, to tell the truth plainly, elated. Winter jostled out of his own highway by a bit of a lass like violet-hunting Spring! Aye, as says our Scotch friend, that is bonnie. The sky is blue, a trifle pale as...
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Add this copy of The Prairie and the Sea to cart. $10.95, fair condition, Sold by ABC Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MO, UNITED STATES, published 1905 by London: Charles H. Kelly.
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Fair. No DJ. Light green cloth hardcover with wear to cover and edges along with embosing on cover. Pages tanning with fading to text block. Bind loose. Some underlining and/or highlighting in this book. Some wear and/or rubbing to cover. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
Add this copy of The Prairie and the Sea to cart. $12.00, very good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1905 by Jennings and Graham.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Worn around edges (see scan); spine slanted; some tanning inside covers; gilt still visible on front cover and top edge; back cover beginning to crack at spine; no marks or creases. Cloth over boards; sewn binding; 342 p., incl. front., illus., plates. 24 cm. Illustrated half-title and t. -p. The prairie. --The north wind. --I saw a bluebird. --A walk in late November. --When the frogs sing. --The spring wind. --The open road. --Sunflowers. --The passing of autumn. --Tree pillars. --The summer wind. --A December spring. --The mountains. --It is raining...
Add this copy of The Prairie and the Sea to cart. $14.00, good condition, Sold by Optical Insights rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Murrieta, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1905 by Jennings and Graham.
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Very Good with no dust jacket. Spine extremities and tips of corners are rubbed. Very slight spine lean. Front hinge is cracked. Bit of light soiling and surface rubbing to binding, but overall looks very presentable. Gilt bright. Previous owner's name written on front pastedown. Small ink note on rear pastedown. Else pages clean.; NHH18A; 342 pages.
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Good in None jacket. Size: 0x0x0; The pages are clean and unmarked with the exception of markings and foxing on the endpapers and flyleaves. The cover has some bumping, rubbing, and wear to the edges.
Add this copy of The Prairie and the Sea to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Olympia Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dowagiac, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1905 by Jennings and Graham.
Add this copy of The Prairie and the Sea to cart. $20.38, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published by Jennings and Graham.
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Add this copy of The prairie and the sea to cart. $24.94, very good condition, Sold by I Love Books Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kingsport, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1905 by Jennings and Graham: Eaton and Mains.
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Very good. first few pages before table of contents have some foxing. Gilt top edge and title trim. 342, 1., incl. front., illus., plates. 24 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Plates. Illustrated half-title and t. -p. The prairie. --The north wind. --I saw a bluebird. --A walk in late November. --When the frogs sing. --The spring wind. --The open road. --Sunflowers. --The passing of autumn. --Tree pillars. --The summer wind. --A December spring. --The mountains. --It is raining...
