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Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York and Toronto, 1937
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Original brown cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First Edition. New York and Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. A nice copy. Very Good+ condition. No owner's name or bookplate. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Inner hinges are perfectly sound. A novel about early settlers in Iowa by the Keosauqua, Iowa-born author of STATE FAIR (1932). BUCKSKIN BREECHES was inspired by his grandfather, Duffield's MEMOIRS OF FRONTIER IOWA published between 1903 and 1906 in ANNALS of IOWA. See Paluka pp. 146-150. First printing, with the FR logo on the copyright page. . First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth/No dust jacket. 8vo. x, 366pp.
Published by Gebrüder Weiss, Berlin, 1948
Seller: Der Ziegelbrenner - Medienversand, Bremen, Germany
Einband kräftiger berieben und bestossen, Bindung gelockert, Papier lichtrandig, innen sonst gut, 76 S., farbige Illustr., Pappband, m. schwarzem Leinenrücken, geb. Mit mehrfarbigen Zeichnungen von Kurt Wiese. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Herbert Roch. Stong verbindet die auf einer wahren Begebenheit beruhende Geschichte mit der Beschreibung von der Einwanderung der Finnen nach Nordamerika, genauer: nach Biwabik in Minnesota (dort steht heute im Ortszentrum noch eine Elchstatue, auch wenn der Ort im Buch Birora heißt - ansonsten die Geschichte aber auf einer wahren Begebenheit beruhen soll). Stong (1899-1957) war Autor, Journalist und Hollywood-Drehbuchautor, und nicht zuletzt eben auch Verfasser einiger Kinder- und Jugendbücher. Gramm 600 dt.EA (OA 1946 u.d.T. "Honk the Moose", Dood, Mead & Company, New York).
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1939
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Kurt Wiese (Endpaper and Chapter Heads) (illustrator). 334 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on dark brown cloth spine. Binding lightly soiled w/ modest rubbing to spine ends. #41 of 500 copies. SIGNED BY PHILIP DUFFIELD STONG. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Light foxing to endpapers. Illust. w/ a color frontispiece, and 103 illustrations from old prints and photos. Contents nice. Signed by Author(s).