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Title

  • The country of the pointed firs

Names

  • Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909, author
  • Whitman, Sarah, book designer
  • Patterson, Mary Marvin Breckinridge, 1905-2002, donor
  • Houghton, Mifflin and Company, publisher
  • Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Aramont Library Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, MDCCCXCVI [1896]
  • Cambridge : The Riverside Press, 1896.

Headings

  • -  Women authors--Fiction
  • -  Seaside resorts--Fiction
  • -  Summer resorts--Fiction
  • -  Country life--Fiction
  • -  Authorship--Fiction
  • -  Maine--Fiction

Genre

  • Psychological fiction
  • Pastoral fiction

Notes

  • -  Title page in red and black.
  • -  Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 10910
  • -  Rare and beautiful books from the Bonel Library (supplement), 38
  • -  Also available in digital form.
  • -  LAC knj 2020-09-16 no edits (1 card)
  • -  PS2132.C64 1896 formerly shelved under: PZ3.J55 Co. LAC knj 2020-09-16
  • -  LAC scc 2020-02-06 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • 213 pages ; 18 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PS2132 .C64 1896
  • PS2132 .C64 1896 Copy 4 First edition, first printing, see Blanck. In original publisher's binding: green cloth with title, author, and ornamentation stamped in gilt on upper board; title, author, and publisher stamped in gilt on spine. Book designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Gift of Mrs. Jefferson Patterson, Feb. 12, 1980.
  • PS2132 .C64 1896 Copy 5 First edition, first printing, see Blanck. In original publisher's binding: green cloth with title, author, and ornamentation stamped in gilt on upper board; title, author, and publisher stamped in gilt on spine. Book designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman.
  • Aramont Library no. 654 Copy 1 First edition, second printing, see Blanck. Illustrated bookplate of R.W. Walker on front paste-down. Small label of W.B. Clarke & Co., Boston on front fly-leaf. In original publisher's binding: pale green cloth with title, author, and ornamentation stamped in gilt on upper board; title, author, and publisher stamped in gilt on spine. Seldom seen in this shade of green; Blanck notes the regular green cloth and a green sateen, but not this very light green cloth.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 07009931

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Jewett, Sarah Orne, Author, Sarah Whitman, Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, Mifflin And Company Houghton, Printer Riverside Press, Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection, and Aramont Library Collection. The Country of the Pointed Firs. [Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, MDCCCXCVI Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1896] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/07009931/.

APA citation style:

Jewett, S. O., Whitman, S., Patterson, M. M. B., Houghton, M. A. C., Riverside Press, P., Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection & Aramont Library Collection. (1896) The Country of the Pointed Firs. [Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, MDCCCXCVI Cambridge: The Riverside Press] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/07009931/.

MLA citation style:

Jewett, Sarah Orne, Author, et al. The Country of the Pointed Firs. [Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, MDCCCXCVI Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1896] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/07009931/>.