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The best stories of Sarah Orne Jewett

Title: The best stories of Sarah Orne Jewett / selected and arranged with a preface by Willa Cather ...
Author: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.
Publication: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925.

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	v. 2	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Jewett B45 1925 v. 2	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	v. 2	Text	Request in advance	NBO (Jewett, S. O. Best stories) v. 2	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	v. 1	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Jewett B45 1925 v. 1	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	v. 1	Text	Request in advance	NBO (Jewett, S. O. Best stories) v. 1	Offsite

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Description

2 v.; 20 cm.

Genre/Form

Dust jackets (Binding).
Presentation inscriptions (Provenance).
Autographs (Provenance).

Note

At head of title: The Mayflower edition.
Printed by the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Bound in seafoam green cloth over boards with titling in gold on spine and forest motif stamp on cover, with dust jacket; housed in slipcase, top edge yellow.

Provenance (note)

Berg Coll. copy inscribed: "To Jane Hayden Gaither Murray with love from Mary, Oct. 21, 1948"--free endpaper of both volumes.

Contents

v. 1. The return. Mrs. Todd. The schoolhouse. At the schoolhouse window. Captain Littlepage. The waiting place. The outer island. Green Island. William. Where pennyroyal grew. The old singers. A strange sail. Poor Joanna. The hermitage. On Shell-heap Island. The great expedition. A country road. The Bowden reunion. The feast's end. Along shore. A Dunnet shepherdess. The Queen's twin. William's wedding. The backward view.--v. 2. A white heron. The flight of Betsey Lane. The Dulham ladies. Going to Shrewsbury. The only rose. Miss Tempy's watchers. Martha's lady. The guest of Mrs. Timms. The town poor. The Hilton's holiday. Aunt Cynthy Dallett.

Call Number

NBO (Jewett, S. O. Best stories)

LCCN

25013439

OCLC

1140512

Author

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.

Title

The best stories of Sarah Orne Jewett / selected and arranged with a preface by Willa Cather ...

Imprint

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925.

Edition

Mayflower ed.

Provenance

Berg Coll. copy inscribed: "To Jane Hayden Gaither Murray with love from Mary, Oct. 21, 1948"--free endpaper of both volumes.

Local Note

Berg Coll. copy signed "Julia G. Heitman"--free endpaper of both volumes.

Berg Coll. copy: Gift of Carter Burden, from his library, 1991.

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Added Author

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.) Printer

Murray, Jane Hayden Gaither. Former owner

Heitman, Julia. Former owner

Burden, Carter. Donor

Research Call Number

NBO (Jewett, S. O. Best stories)

Berg Coll Jewett B45 1925

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