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Boston: D.C. Heath. 1902. First. First edition. Introduction by Joseph Osgood Thompson. 34pp., frontispiece. Paper over stiff card wraps, some splitting along the edges of the paper spine, yapped edges a bit bumped, a very good copy. The author was the daughter of Rev. William A. Stearns, President of Amherst College. Stearns took over the care of Thompson, a young African-American boy, and Thompson later became a well-known figure on the Amherst campus. Very scarce, OCLC lists no copies in American librari... more information

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. (circa 1880). 392pp. Map and illustrations. Very good with front hinge slightly crack and some edgewear, in an unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Two volumes in one. . ... more information

New York: E.P. Dutton. 1921. Second edition. A fair only copy with corners bumped and rubbed, and some nicking at the spine ends. With bookplate and ownership signature of noted colelctor Harry B. Smith. . ... more information

Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas,: Scott, Foresman and Company. (1958). Fifth edition. Quarto. 624pp. Underlining and notations in ink throughout including endpapers, owner's bookplate on front pastedown, edges worn, thus good only. . ... more information

Cabot VT: Vermont Stoveside Press. (1968). First. First edition. 12mo. Stapled wrappers. Fine. One of 200 numbered copies. Issued as "A Free Soul Poetry Chapbook". . ... more information

Cabot VT: Vermont Stoveside Press. (1968). First. First edition. 12mo. Stapled wrappers. Fine. One of 200 numbered copies. Issued as "A Free Soul Poetry Chapbook". . ... more information

Paris: Arthaud. (1959). First. First edition. Very good with some soiling/staining along the top and bottom edges of both boards, in a very good dustwrapper. . ... more information

New York: McGraw Hill. (1971). First. First edition in English. Very good in a near fine dustwrapper. . ... more information

New York: Pinnacle Books. (1976). First. First edition. Paperback original. Some foxing on the edges and a toned spine else near fine. Inscribed by the author. . ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1949. First. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. . ... more information

Franklin Station, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library. 1977. First edition with these illustrations. Illustrated by William Gregg. Full gray cloth stamped "RECORD AND REFERENCE COPY" on the front board and spine. All edges gilt. Slight wear, else fine. Presumably one of very few, or perhaps the only copy thus (as opposed to the thousands of leather bound copies of the publisher's "limited edition"). The publisher's file copy. . ... more information

New York: The Macmillan Company. 1913. First. First edition. Quatro. 417pp. With top edge gilt. Illustrated with black and white plates. Near fine with white stamping rubbed off at the top edge and bottom corner of front board, and small sections from the spine. . ... more information

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.. (1957). Third printing. Folio. Black & white and color illustrations. A very good copy, without dustwrapper. From the Library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. . ... more information

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library. 1977. Reprint. Illustrations by William Gregg. Quarto. Fine in maroon leather gilt with raised bands, gilt edges and ribbon marker. One of an unspecified number of copies of this limited edition. Part of the Franklin Library Pulitzer Prize series. . ... more information

New York: Coward-McCann. (1941). First. First edition. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper with slight edgewear to the spine ends and a little overall age-toning. Events in the life of a social-climbing family in Rhode Island. An attractive copy. . ... more information

Boston / NY: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1933. First. First edition. Small owner label on the front pastedown, light wear to the boards, about fine in very good dustwrapper with a few small chips. Adventures of a Rhode Island privateer seeking to prey on British shipping. . ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (1929). Reprint. Upper board edges a bit dust-soiled, else fine in good plus dustwrapper with edge tears. The author's first book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of Navajo life. Basis for the 1934 film starring Ramon Novarro and Lupe Velez. . ... more information

(New York): New Directions. (1945). First. First edition. Very near fine in near very good dustwrapper with a 2" tear on the front panel. Drama in verse about the migration of the Mesa Verde people. . ... more information

New York: Pilot Press/Duell, Sloan and Pearce. (1946). First. First edition. Selected with an introduction by Richard Aldington. Fine with light offsetting on the front endpapers in very good dustwrapper with small tears around the extremities. Text is in English. . ... more information

London: Nonesuch Press. 1943. Reprint. Fine in boards and slipcase as issued. . ... more information