Author: MACLAREN, IAN (PSEUDONYM OF JOHN WATSON)
Title: Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
Description: New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1895. Early printing. Hardcover. This is a small format book (approx. 4" x 6.5") . The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book has some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The spine of the book has spots of toning, and there is foxing to the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. "Maclaren's first stories of rural Scottish life, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894) , achieved extraordinary popularity, selling more than 700,000 copies, and was succeeded by other successful books, The Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895) , Kate Carnegie and those Ministers (1896) , and Afterwards and other Stories (1898). By his own name Watson published several volumes of sermons, among them being The Upper Room (1895) , The Mind of the Master (1896) and The Potter's Wheel (1897). Today he is regarded as one of the principal writers of the Kailyard school." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Ian Maclaren Scotland
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Title: Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
Description: New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1895. Early printing. Hardcover. This is a small format book (approx. 4" x 6.5") . The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book has some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The spine of the book has spots of toning, and there is foxing to the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. "Maclaren's first stories of rural Scottish life, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894) , achieved extraordinary popularity, selling more than 700,000 copies, and was succeeded by other successful books, The Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895) , Kate Carnegie and those Ministers (1896) , and Afterwards and other Stories (1898). By his own name Watson published several volumes of sermons, among them being The Upper Room (1895) , The Mind of the Master (1896) and The Potter's Wheel (1897). Today he is regarded as one of the principal writers of the Kailyard school." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Ian Maclaren Scotland
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 47879
- Book number: 47879
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