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. 1912 Excerpt: ...After! From away left, a distant clamor begins: the beat of a drum, the faint squealing of fifes, shouting and the blowing of horns. Gradually the sounds grow louder. JONAS She was a wild, healthy thing, all alive--like your Julie. And looks!--well, the fair Shulamite wasn't fairer to Solomon. So he was about to take ...
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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. 1912 Excerpt: ...After! From away left, a distant clamor begins: the beat of a drum, the faint squealing of fifes, shouting and the blowing of horns. Gradually the sounds grow louder. JONAS She was a wild, healthy thing, all alive--like your Julie. And looks!--well, the fair Shulamite wasn't fairer to Solomon. So he was about to take her in marriage, but about then, your grandfather Hale--Jonas gives a queer smile. JOHN Faintly. No! Not--? JONAS Yes, sir; yes! "Stick to your own stock," says he. "Farmers we may be and country folks, but Adamses we are, and Hales, and Brad fords: The breed of Salem and Bunker Hill crossed with Canucks? Shades of the Mayflower forefend!--And they forefended! Crossbreeding isn't their legacy. Your father was shamed--shamed into it, John; and so he deserted your mother. JOHN My mother? The Canuck--you mean. JONAS What did I say? JOHN No matter. How long after--did he marry my mother? JONAS With a far-off stare. He never married her. JOHN Starting. What!--Oh, you mean the Canuck again. JONAS Slowly. Yes, the Canuck I mean. But he raised her child. JOHN Drawing back. Not--not a son? JONAS You have no brother, nor sister, John. JOHN Darkly. You lie. JONAS Quietly. Have you? JOHN Your insinuation--that! You lie in that. JONAS Do I lie to you, John, --ever? JOHN As the truth dawns painfully. No. The old man looks at him with tenderness, makes an awkward motion of caress--then refrains. John sinks down on the settle, shaken, hiding his face. His words are hardly audible. Canuck!--a Canuck! JONAS Looks about helplessly, sees an iron dipper by the trough, dips it and hands it to John. Have some water? John motions it away. He built this trough--your father did. Pointing to the words cut in the stone. He made the motto there. Coughing. I'm...
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Add this copy of Yankee Fantasies: Five One-Act Plays to cart. $10.00, very good condition, Sold by Saucony Book Shop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kutztown, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1912 by Duffield & Co..
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VG+ No Jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Dark blue cloth, lettered in white. Light shelf wear, a bit rubbed at spine extremities, spine lettering rubbed, text block edges a bit dulled by age. Firm binding, clean interior. xiv, 169 pp.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. New York: Samuel French, 1928. New and Revised edition. Tight, square and unmarked. Lower edges shelf rubbed. 193pp. Jacket is price-clipped, mildly soiled, and in a protective mylar cover. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
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NY 1912 first edition Duffield. Hardcover. Octavo, 169pp., blue cloth with white lettering. Good plus, minor cover wear, no DJ. Text clean and binding secure; no ownership marks.
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Very Good. 2015. Hardcover. "Chuck: an orchard fantasy. --Gettysburg: a woodshed commentary. --The antick: a wayside sketch. --The cat-boat: a fantasy for music--Sam Average: a silhouette. Commissioning organisation: by Percy MacKaye. xiv, [2], 169 p. 20 cm. Original cloth. Fine copy, clean with tight binding, just slight rubbing to spine ends." Keywords: Subjects. Not a first edition copy.....We ship daily from our warehouse.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. New revised edition. Frontispiece by Arvia MacKaye. 193pp. Toning on the endpapers and slight wear on the board edges else near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine, shallow chips, and a small tear on the rear panel. Revised edition with a new introduction by the author. "These five short plays comprise the first published group of American folk-plays."
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