The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White 1907 Adventure novel

Description: THE SILENT PLACES by STEWART EDWARD WHITE Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin. 1907. Seventh impression.Description: Stamped green and red with gilt titles. Gilt top edge. Illustrated frontis with tissue guard and 6 others in text.Condition: Very good. Shelf wear to edges and soiling. Inscribed on free endpaper 1909. Light scattered foxing. Pages age toned. Back cover hinge paper split. Pages tight.(see photos)Pages: 304 plus 8 advertisingSize: 5.5" x 7.75"Weight: 1 lb 7 ozsAuthor Stewart Edward White (1873.- 1946) He received a degree in Philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1895 and a M. A. from Columbia University in 1903. He wrote numerous books, articles, and short stories about his experiences in mining and lumber camps and on exploration trips. Some of his best known novels include The Claim Jumpers, The Blazed Trail, Gold, The Gray Dawn, and The Rose Dawn. 1907. The story begins: At about eight o'clock one evening of the early summer a group of men were seated on a grass plot overlooking a broad river. The sun was just setting through the forest fringe directly behind them. Of this group some reclined in the short grass, others lay flat on the bank's slope, while still others leaned against the carriages of two highly ornamented field-guns, whose embossed muzzles gaped silently at an eastern shore nearly two miles distant Check out my other current book listings. I will combine shipping for the best rate. Ask if you have questions. No reserve. You bid, it sells!This book is from the estate of John Robert Gregg Jr. Born April 25, 1935 in Manhattan, N.Y. to John Robert Gregg, inventor of Gregg shorthand, and Janet Kinley Gregg, daughter of economist David Kinley, he worked briefly as an editor for the Sierra Club in San Francisco before moving to York, Maine in 1967, where he lived the rest of his life winter, spring and fall. He died in York in 2019. Summers he spent at his beloved cottage on the French River, Ontario.His extensive collected library was supplemented by inherited collections from a number of allied families who lived in both Chicago and Manhattan. Subjects include Canadian and Arctic exploration, Inuits, American Revolutionary War; Novels and poetry by William Shakespeare, Keats and Shelley, Marlowe, Bierce, Douglas, as well as plays etc. I purchased several hundred of his books at auction and will be listing them, probably until I die!Notice: This book will be shipped book rate. It is slower, but cheaper. Be patient!

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