About this title: Originally published in 1929, Walter Edmond's first book was a stunning critical and popular success . It is the first significant fictional treatment of life on the New York State canals which had all but disappeared before Edmonds discovered and brought it back to life.
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Edition: Stated First Printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Award Books
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Good Readers Copy. All pages intact but spine has cracked. Front cover neatly taped at hinge. Price in pencil on liner. Cover clean with small hole in front that has pierced first 4 pages. Text bright and clean. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 318 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Award Books
Date Published: 1965
Description: Reading copy. Award Books stated first printing May, 1965. Mass-market paperback used A138N K. This is a good reading copy with moderate age-toning and soil, slight spine shift, intact, tight binding, no tears. One notation in ink inside front cover. Special Introduction by J. Donald Adams. read more
Edition: Reprint. 3rd reprint of January 1929 first.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 1929
Description: Annand, George (Endpaper illustration by). Fair. No dust jacket. Rear endpaper two-third's split at seam. Black cloth cover mottled, some patches loose from board underneath. Lavender spine titles rubbed. Cover titles OK. 347 p. Endpapers: Drawings & map of Erie Canal, New York State. Historical fiction, Rome, New York State, 1850-1852; the adventuring of Dan'l Harrow. The Erie Canal was built across New York State, connecting waterways from Albany to Buffalo, like the song says. it was first ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780815602132ISBN:0815602138
Description: Very Good. Text pages clean & tight with no markings or highlighting. Cover has scattered scratches. Fictional treatment of life on the New York State canals. Extremely readable copy! read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Covers rubbed and lightly soiled and spotted. Pages and endpapers show light aging. Binding square and tight. Unknown printing. 347 p. ; 22 cm. Edition not stated. Blue cloth covered boads with red lettering. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Triangle Books
Date Published: 1942
Description: Good in Fair jacket. Brown with water scenery spined DJ with cream lettering, untaped to HB...For quick service, please consider Expedited shipping since standard delivery may range from 4-18 business days. Thank you. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780815602132ISBN:0815602138
Description: VG+ 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. xiii, 347 pp. Light shelf wear. Square, uncreased binding. Former owner signature on half-title, embossed name stamp on half-and title pp. read more
Edition: Rept
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Pub, NY
Date Published: 1929
Description: NY MAP DJ COVER ART. VERY GOOD Condition. 5x7" GOOD DJ 347ps NY ERIE Canal Life novel set in 1850's...Orange spine & cover titles on dark blue cloth hard covers. Torn, Chiped DJ. read more
Edition: early reprint
Binding: hard
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York
Date Published: c1929
Description: George Annand map endpapers. very good+, no dj, orange-stamped blue cloth, tight, NOT ex-lib. 347 pgs, Author's first book. Area of Erie Canal/Rome, New York fiction. No names, clean text. Small worm-hole lower fore-edge. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr, Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780815602132ISBN:0815602138
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Binding is tight, the corners and spine ends are lightly bumped and are shelf rubbed; there is an old small sticker price to the rear cover bottom left corner, as well as a barcode sticker to the right side; the spine is a few shades sun faded; there is a small sticker remnant to the front cover top right corner; a couple of pages are dog-eared. Text is clean. 347 pages. read more
Description: Grosset & Dunlap, c1929, later printing, hardcover, illustrated; End papers, covers lightly silverfished, previous owner's name, a solid copy, GOOD+, in a beautiful dustjacket (a color reprint of a GOOD+ original), in a new clear mylar DJ cover. A nice copy you will be happy to own! read more
Edition: Early Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company, Boston
Date Published: 1929
Description: Very Good. This 5.5 x 7.5 hard cover book has pink lettering on the black spine and cover. 347 pages. Early printing. Some edgewear. Clean with tight binding. Very Good condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap-Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Near Fine/Very Good- Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Top page edges dyed yellow. Published "February 1929" on copyright page. Pages are age-toned. Clean and tight, no markings. Dust jacket cover art by George Annand depicts a map of the Erie Canal. Jacket shows chips and closed tears with loss at top and bottom of spine. 347pp. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1929
Description: Hardcover. No Dj. Reprint. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very Good, light rubbing to covers, wear to edges, otherwise book in nice shape, text tight and clean. This is a vintage novel that takes us deep into Great Lakes country. Published in association with Atlantic Monthly. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Council on Books in Wartime, Inc
Date Published: 1929
Description: Acceptable. Worn cover. Pages tanned. Owner name on title page, ticks on catalog printed on inside back cover. Binding sound. Good solid copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1938
Description: Good. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Exterior shelfworn and aged; interior clean, unmarked, pages faintly aged. We ship daily. International orders ship airmail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1938
Description: G+ in G jacket. 1938 Modern Library Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in good condition. Red cloth over board covers have light edge and corner rubbing. Opt corner has a small damp stain. Spine is clean with bold text. Dust jacket is in good condition with minor edge and corner rubbing. Jacket has some small chips at the spine end. Pages are clean with minor age tone. Binding is solid. A very nice copy. read more
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