A Journey in Search of Christmas by Owen Wister - 1904

Amereon Limited, 1911. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1904. Hardcover. Good +. 6 x 9 in. Red pictoral cloth boards. Condition is GOOD+ ; ex-library with paper spine label, stamp on ffep, bookplate on front pastedown, numerals on both plus title pg., rear card band and removed date sheet. Boards are very worn at corners and spine, tears to spine ends. Front inner hinge starting and frontis partly detached. Text unmarked, some faint foxing. Fiction. Stax.

MP3 Audio CD. A Journey in Search of Christmas Chapter 1, "Lin's Money Talks Joy" The Governor descended the steps of the Capitol slowly and with pauses, lifting a list frequently to his eye. He had intermittently penciled it between stages of the forenoon's public business, and his gait grew absent as he recurred now to his jottings in their accumulation, with a slight pain at their number, and the definite fear that they would be more in seasons to come. They were the names of his friends' children to whom his excellent heart moved him to give Christmas presents. He had put off this regenerating evil until the latest day, as was his custom, and now he was setting forth to do the whole thing at a blow, entirely plan less among the guns and rocking-horses that would presently surround him. As he reached the highway he heard himself familiarly addressed from a distance, and, turning, saw four sons of the alkali jogging into town from the plain. One who had shouted to him galloped out from… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Journey in Search of Christmas Chapter 1, "Lin's Money Talks Joy" The Governor descended the steps of the Capitol slowly and with pauses, lifting a list frequently to his eye. He had intermittently penciled it between stages of the forenoon's public business, and his gait grew absent as he recurred now to his jottings in their accumulation, with a slight pain at their number, and the definite fear that they would be more in seasons to come. They were the names of his friends' children to whom his excellent heart moved him to give Christmas presents. He had put off this regenerating evil until the latest day, as was his custom, and now he was setting forth to do the whole thing at a blow, entirely plan less among the guns and rocking-horses that would presently surround him. As he reached the highway he heard himself familiarly addressed from a distance, and, turning, saw four sons of the alkali jogging into town from the plain. One who had shouted to him galloped out from… Read More

New York: Harper & Bros., 1905 Not first edition. "Published October 1904" on copyright page. Finely illustrated by Frederic Remington with line drawings on every page. 8vo. 9" tall. 93 pages. Top page edges gilt. Beautiful pictorial red cloth - Mountain view framed by a holly wreath on front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Some wear at top and bottom of spine. Spine soiled a little. Frontispiece page missing. Previous owner's inscribed name on flyleaf. no jacket. Very good condition..

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

New.

Harper & Brothers, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover eith red decorated cloth covers with oval illustration on front. Much scuffing on the illustration. Light soil on covers. Owners inscription on front endpaper. Thick pages with uncut front edge and filled with illustrations done by Frederic Remington. 9x6 with 93 pp. First Edition.

Paperback / softback. New.

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1904. 1st printing; red decorative c w/gilt titles, slight rubbing of colors on front; lite wear at extremities; illustrated end papers; 93 clean, unmarked pages, two-color illustration throughout + 2 plates. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Frederic Remington. 8 vo.