About this title: 'Without literary capers, the story walks its straight road to laughter and tears and family affections and comradeship and griefs...There is nothing phony about this sentiment. It comes from the heart' - Wallace Stegner, "Saturday Review of Literature". The state of Iowa was still young and wild when Wayne Lockwood came to it from New England in 1851. He claimed a quarter-section about a hundred miles west of Dubuque and quickly came to appreciate widely scattered neighbors like Jeremiah Martin, whose seven daughters would have chased the gloom from any bachelor's heart.Sabina, Emily, Celia, ...
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Edition: First Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: N A L, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780451139252ISBN:0451139259
Description: Fair, Reading Copy. Soft cover, creases to cover and spine, damp stains to page edges, shelf west wall. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780451139252ISBN:0451139259
Description: Good. Ex-Library Ex lib remainders, light shelf wear to corners, creases on front cover and spine, binding is loose, pages are yellowing. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D. Appleton-Century Company, New York
Date Published: 1943
Description: VG in VG- jacket. The book is blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles. The book has light shelf edge wear and previous owner's name on ffep. The DJ has modest shelf edge wear with small chipping at corners and spine (now protected in a Brodart jacket cover). This is the 1943 printing of the 1939 copyright. read more
Description: Fair. Cover dirty, scuffed and worn around edges, some water damage and staining top corner of book, spine torn almost completely from back cover, name inside front cover, pages otherwise in good condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Sun Dial Press, Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1939
Description: Good. No Jacket. 6X8. The Sun Dial reprint edition 1944==First inside blank page is missing==Front & back covers are water spoted==Slight browing==Tightly Bound==Clean pages-==No writing or marks in book-==490 Pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Sun Dial Press, Garden City, NY
Date Published: 1944
Description: Good in Poor jacket. Book in good condition. Bumping on top and bottom spine from shelf wear. DJ torn on edges and spine areas. Owners name written on inside cover. read more
Description: DJ HAS EDGE NICKS AND RUBBING AND CLEAR TAPE REPAIR TO SPLIT AT REAR GUTTER, HARDBOUND IN BLUE CLOTH, SOME TONING TO TEXT AND SMALL PO ADDRESS STICKER FEP, VG, NY, D. APPLETON CENTURY, 1939, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING WITH (1) AFTER LAST WORD OF TEXT, 8VO, 490 PPS., FICTION, A NOVEL OF PIONEER IOWA, FIRST EDITION, read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D. Appleton-Century
Date Published: 1939
Description: Very Good. Very good with good d/j in mylar. Light shelf wear, clean pages, tight spine. Faint remnants of erased name on fly. Small piece of each d/j flap corner clipped, price intact. A few chips and tears at edges. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9781560542759ISBN:1560542756
Description: Good. This is a LARGE PRINT EX-LIBRARY copy, in the following condition. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1985-11-05
ISBN-13:9780451139252ISBN:0451139259
Description: Used; Acceptable. Spine is slightly creased. Scuffed edges. Pages slightly browned from age. Previous owner's name on inside page. Cover slightly creased. clean text tight binding shelf wear on cover there are some marks on the tops of some page edges where old paper clips were placed. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780803259188ISBN:0803259182
Description: Acceptable. Substantial Water Damage and substantial stains throughout. Book totally readable though and no markings in text. Binding tight. Corner and Cover Wear. read more
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