Excerpt: ..."If you don't jine your syllables closer together you will see trouble, Josiah Allen. You'll find yourself swearin' before you know it." "Oh shaw, sez he, "customer haint a swearin' word; ministers use it. I've hearn 'em many a time." "Yes," sez I, "but they don't draw it out as you did, Josiah Allen." "Oh! wall! Folks can't always speak up pert and quick when they are off on pleasure exertions and have been barked at as long as I have been. But now I've got a minutes chance," sez he, "let me tell you ag'in, don ...
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Excerpt: ..."If you don't jine your syllables closer together you will see trouble, Josiah Allen. You'll find yourself swearin' before you know it." "Oh shaw, sez he, "customer haint a swearin' word; ministers use it. I've hearn 'em many a time." "Yes," sez I, "but they don't draw it out as you did, Josiah Allen." "Oh! wall! Folks can't always speak up pert and quick when they are off on pleasure exertions and have been barked at as long as I have been. But now I've got a minutes chance," sez he, "let me tell you ag'in, don't you make no arraingments to go to the Moon. It is dangerus, and I won't go myself, nor let you go." "Let," sez I to myself. "That is rather of a gaulin' word to me. Won't let me go." But then I thought ag'in, and thought how love and tenderness wuz a dictatin' the term, and I thought to myself, it has a good sound to me, I like the word. I love to hear him say he won't let me go. And truly to me it looked hazerdus. But Miss Flamm seemed ready to go on, and onwillin'ly I followed on after her footsteps. But I looked 'round, and said "Good-bye" in my heart, to the fine trees, and cleer, brown waters of the brook, the grass, and the wild flowers, and the sweet peace that wuz over all. "Good-bye," sez I. "If I don't see you ag'in, you'll find some other lover that will appreciate you, though I am fur away." They didn't answer me back, none on 'em, but I felt that they understood me. The pines whispered sunthin' to each other, and the brook put its moist lips up to the pebbly shore and whispered sunthin' to the grasses that bent down to hear it. I don't know exactly what it wuz, but it wuz sunthin' friendly I know, for I felt it speak right through the soft, summer sunshine into my heart. They couldn't exactly tell what they felt towards me, and I couldn't exactly tell what I felt towards them, yet we understood each other; curi'us, haint it? Wall, we got into the carriage ag'in, one of her relatives gettin' down to open the door. They knew...
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Very Good+ Book Decorated endpapers. "Sold by subscription only" printed on titlepage. Handsome steel-engraved port. of author as frontis. Frederick Opper artwork. very good+, no dj, pictorial spine, gold-stamped pale green cl 583 pgs.
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Frederick Opper. Good. Fiction. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Josiah Allen and his wife go off to Saratoga and the waters to help Josiah's feet. This book is in good condition. The spine is tight. There is a little warp to the boards. The boards are tan with the lettring in black and the art work in red and black. The illustrations are great.
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OPPER, FREDERICK. GOOD. 5.5 X 8.25. Light brown hardcover. Slightly worn out. Written by Josiah Allen's Wife. Pages are clean. Text is clear. Black and white illustrations by Frederick Opper. Overall good condition. _PAB_
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Undated, but likely c. 1900. Red cloth boards with gilt on cover and spine. Some bubbling to cover suggests past water damage, but no dampstains on pages. Light scuffing and shelfwear with age. Spine cracked, but all pages intact. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Text clean and unmarked. Good copy. Great reading/study copy. May have highlights and/or notes. Ships Fast! Satisfaction Guaranteed!
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Good with no dust jacket. Novel by "Josiah Allen's Wife" (Marietta Holley, B&W Ills. by Frederick Opper, frontis. portrait of author, humorous novel, pictorial covers in dark brown on brown with gilt lettering, green patterned eps. covers worn w/ corners and spine ends fraying, front hinge cracked, p-o's name on blank prelim., book is sl. cocked but text is clean and very readable, offered by Yankee Peddler Bookshop serving book seekers 40+ years, Book is in Williamson.
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Near Very Good. 374pp Lots of illustrations Rear facing page is missing Ink mark on front facing page, otherwise pages are clean and tight Corners of cover and spine tips show a little wear.
