Author: Stratton-Porter, Gene
Title: Laddie. A True Blue Story. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer
Description: Garden City, Doubleday Page & Company, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An unblemished bright copy of the First Edition [very minor rubs at the tips] in the publisher's embossed blue boards with white decorations and titling on the upper cover and spine; decorated endpapers [frontis + 3 plates by Herman Pfeifer. In a very good or better example of the rare first issue dustwrapper showing light use, with "LADDIE A TRUE BLUE STORY" and the correct price of a dollar and thirty-five cents on the spine, the back panel blank and without reviews on the flaps. 8vo. pp. [xii], 602. Her most highly regarded fictionalized autobiography of her own childhood growing up in the Limberlost Swamp, Wabash, Indiana. Gene Stratton-Porter [1863 - 1924]. An American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines, such as McCalls. Her works were translated into several languages, including Braille, & Stratton-Porter was estimated to have 50 million readers around the world. She used her position and income as a well-known author to support conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in the state of Indiana. Her novel A Girl of the Limberlost was adapted four times as a film, most recently in 1990 in a made-for-TV version. Smith S-1013. near fine/Very Good +.
Keywords: Edward Abbey
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Title: Laddie. A True Blue Story. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer
Description: Garden City, Doubleday Page & Company, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An unblemished bright copy of the First Edition [very minor rubs at the tips] in the publisher's embossed blue boards with white decorations and titling on the upper cover and spine; decorated endpapers [frontis + 3 plates by Herman Pfeifer. In a very good or better example of the rare first issue dustwrapper showing light use, with "LADDIE A TRUE BLUE STORY" and the correct price of a dollar and thirty-five cents on the spine, the back panel blank and without reviews on the flaps. 8vo. pp. [xii], 602. Her most highly regarded fictionalized autobiography of her own childhood growing up in the Limberlost Swamp, Wabash, Indiana. Gene Stratton-Porter [1863 - 1924]. An American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines, such as McCalls. Her works were translated into several languages, including Braille, & Stratton-Porter was estimated to have 50 million readers around the world. She used her position and income as a well-known author to support conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in the state of Indiana. Her novel A Girl of the Limberlost was adapted four times as a film, most recently in 1990 in a made-for-TV version. Smith S-1013. near fine/Very Good +.
Keywords: Edward Abbey
Price: US$ 350.00 Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library
- Book number: 34082
- Book number: 34082
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