About this title: Acclaimed for her 1928 novel 'A Lantern in Her Hand, ' Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published for masterpiece, 'Spring Came on Forever, ' a novel of two Nebraska pioneer families from settlement to the 1930s. Elsewhere an artist of the romance, here Aldrich turns romance on its head.
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Appleton-Century, New York
Date Published: 1935
Description: Good in poor dust jacket. 332 p.; 20 cm. DJ is in tatters but still intact. Book has p.o. name inside cover and dated 1935. Page edges are worn but other than that its in great condition for its age! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Date Published: 1985-02-01
ISBN-13:9780803259072ISBN:0803259077
Description: Very Good. Clean trade pb reprint of 1935 classic, with light cover wear. Tight and square with no spine creases. Bison Books, Lincoln NE, 1985. 333 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Meredith
Date Published: 1967
Description: Acceptable in Acceptable jacket. Ex-library with usual stamps and labels. Binding is loose, copy shows some wear. Dust jacket in mylar. For quick delivery, please consider Expedited shipping-standard delivery ranges from 4-19 business days. Thank you! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bison Books
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780803259072ISBN:0803259077
Description: Very Good+ 333pp. Former owner's name and date and moose sticker on half title page, and name and date again inside front cover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Meredith Press, New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. hardback no jacket-inside of covers shows glue stain where jacket was once attached-clean tight book. 332 p.; 20 cm. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Sun Dial Press, Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1944
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Previous owner sticker inside front cover, covers soiled a little, cover corners bumped and frayed, pages browning, but not brittle, pages tight, hinges good. 332 pages This is a Novel of Life dealing with the settlement of the west, from 1860 to 1930' read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Appleton Century
Date Published: 1935
Description: Good. No Jacket. New York. : Appleton-Century Co. 1935, 1935. First edition. Duodecimo, green cloth with title panel and silver titling to spine and top board. 333pp. Spine and top and lower margins are darkened a shade. Owners name to endpaper. Slight lean. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York
Date Published: c1935
Description: Very Good in Good dust jacket. Spine of book lightly sunned; dj shows wear around edges, slight foxing on rear, color still very good. Unknown printing. 332 p. 20 cm. read more
Description: NO DJ, HARDBOUND IN GREEN CLOTH WITH SILVER LETTERING, SOME CORNER WEAR, PO NAME IN EPS, VG, NY, D. APPLETON-CENTURY, 1935, FIRST EDITION WITH (1) TO LAST PAGE OF TEXT, 7.75 BY 5.5 IN., 332 PPS., NOVEL, IOWA AND NEBRASKA AUTHOR, FIRST EDITION, read more
Description: Very good. By Bess Streeter Aldrich; ISBN: 0884112616; Pub. : Amereon Limited; Pub. Date: November, 1983; Media: Hardcover; Weight: 20 oz.; Great condition. Appears to have been gently read, if at all. No dust jacket. 1976 HARDCOVER EDITION, EX-LIBRAY COPY----MINIMAL EXTERIOR MARKINGS, 79JZ06140626. by Bess Streeter Aldrich; ISBN: 0884112616; Pub. : Amereon Limited; Pub. Date: November, 1983; Media: Hardcover; Weight: 20 oz.; Great condition. Appears to have been gently read, if at all. No ... read more
"I cannot believe this woman wrote "A Lantern in Her Hand" my favorite book and this book that was so, so, so--dumb! I was so depressed when I finished it and can't believe I finished it."
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