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JOHNNY APPLESEED: THE ROMANCE OF THE SOWER
by Atkinson, Eleanor (novel); Merrill, Frank T. (Illustrations)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915. First Edition. The Indiana author's novelization of the life of John Chapman (1774-1885), the American frontiersman and folk hero better known as "Johnny Appleseed." Smith A-357. First Printing, with publisher's "C-P" code on copyright page. Octavo; olive green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and dark blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [14], 340, [2]pp; frontispiece and 13 illustrations. Oxidation to spine gilt, with cloth at spine gently darkened and two pin-sized nicks right board edges; Near Fine. In the first printing dustjacket (not the color reprint) priced $1.25 at spine and listing 140 Harper's titles on verso; spine lightly sunned, edgeworn, with small chips and tears and several splits to folds (though still integral); a substantially complete example, Good and unrepaired.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2131
- Title
- JOHNNY APPLESEED: THE ROMANCE OF THE SOWER
- Author
- Atkinson, Eleanor (novel); Merrill, Frank T. (Illustrations)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1915
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About the Seller
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Biblio member since 2010
Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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