BYLOW HILL

Published by New York Charles Scribner’s Sons 1902

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Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.Buddenbrooks, Inc.

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First edition. Illustrated with six atmospheric plates in colour by F. C. Yohn. 8vo, in the original bright red cloth, featuring a Margaret Armstrong art nouveau design on the upper cover of flowers depicted in black and gilt with a coiled gilt snake at the base, the spine similarly decorated in gilt and black and gilt lettered. 215 pp. A fine copy, bright and clean and attractive. The Armstrong binding with just a hint of mellowing at the spine and the lightest touch of shelving evidence at the tips. FIRST EDITION. Leaving his trademark southern localities for a change, Cable sets this story in a small and quaint New England town in the late nineteenth century. Bylow Hill tells of a web of relationships between a number of the inhabitants, but the focus is on two families in particularthe Byingtons and the Winslows. The young people of these families, including Ruth and Leonard Byington and Arthur and Godfrey Winslow, must all face the realities of love, loyalty, and loss. George W. Cable strikes a personal chord with his touching story based on his adoptive town of Northampton, Massachusetts. Cable moved there in 1885 after the results of publishing two essays encouraging racial equality and the consequent blow-back in his native Louisiana. …

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Title
BYLOW HILL
Author
Cable George W
Publisher
New York Charles Scribner’s Sons 1902
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

Buddenbrooks, Inc.

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Buddenbrooks has one of the finest selections of fine and rare books in several fields and we invite you to visit us at our new premises in Newburyport, Massachusetts where have an open "brick and mortar" bookshop. We are also available to meet with clients in Boston by appointment only, where we have maintained a presence for over 40 years. We offer a search service for any books, old or new, which you may have been unable to find. Please call for further information, we look forward to hearing from you.…

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