Stories & Novels, selected by Costain & Beecroft, Vol.2 1st BC Ed. 1956 illustrated
"Stories to Remember, Volume 2: Complete Novels and Stories, selected by Thomas B. Costain and John Beecroft, published by Doubleday, Garden City, New York, First Book Club Edition, 1956. Contains 3 complete novels and stories; illustrated by Martha Sawyers and William Reusswig.
Original dust jacket [some edge wear, soiled backside]; blue hard boards with gold lettering on spine, 5.3/4" x 8.1/2"; 410 pages, several line illustrations, very good condition.
Contents:
"The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (complete novel) by Thornton Wilder, 1928. A suspension bridge in the Peruvian Andes gives way, sending a group of travellers to their demise. Who were they, and what chances of fate led them to their rendezvous with death at San Luis Rey? Excellent story.
"Basquerie" by Eleanor Mercein Kelly, 1927. A lovely, not-so-young American girl in Europe must decide between love and (possibly?) a more financially wise match. This author is worth further investigation.
"Judith" by A.E. Coppard, 1927. Aristocratic Judith meets and dallies with a handsome young schoolmaster, to his eventual tragic downfall.
"A Mother in Mannville" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1936. Touchingly poignant short story about an orphan boy and his integrity and pride.
"Kerfol" by Edith Wharton, 1916. The tragic tale of a jealous French nobleman and his faithless wife. Supernatural elements – something of a ghost story.
"The Last Leaf" by O.Henry
"The Bloodhound" by Arthur Train
"What the Old Man Does is Always Right" by Hans Christian Andersen
"The Sea of Grass" (A Novel) by Conrad Richter
"The Sire De Maletroits Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
"By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benet
"A.V. Laider" by Max Beerbohm
"The Pillar of Fire" by Percival Wilde
"The Strange Will" (from the Novel The Man with the Broken Ear) by Edmond About
"The Hand at the Window" (from the novel Wuthering Heights) by Emily Bronte and
"National Velvet" (A Novel) by Enid Bagnold
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US: Priority (c 2-4 days) -------- $10.50
Canada: 1st Class (c 2-6 weeks) -- $26.50
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"Stories to Remember, Volume 2: Complete Novels and Stories, selected by Thomas B. Costain and John Beecroft, published by Doubleday, Garden City, New York, First Book Club Edition, 1956. Contains 3 complete novels and stories; illustrated by Martha Sawyers and William Reusswig.
Original dust jacket [some edge wear, soiled backside]; blue hard boards with gold lettering on spine, 5.3/4" x 8.1/2"; 410 pages, several line illustrations, very good condition.
Contents:
"The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (complete novel) by Thornton Wilder, 1928. A suspension bridge in the Peruvian Andes gives way, sending a group of travellers to their demise. Who were they, and what chances of fate led them to their rendezvous with death at San Luis Rey? Excellent story.
"Basquerie" by Eleanor Mercein Kelly, 1927. A lovely, not-so-young American girl in Europe must decide between love and (possibly?) a more financially wise match. This author is worth further investigation.
"Judith" by A.E. Coppard, 1927. Aristocratic Judith meets and dallies with a handsome young schoolmaster, to his eventual tragic downfall.
"A Mother in Mannville" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1936. Touchingly poignant short story about an orphan boy and his integrity and pride.
"Kerfol" by Edith Wharton, 1916. The tragic tale of a jealous French nobleman and his faithless wife. Supernatural elements – something of a ghost story.
"The Last Leaf" by O.Henry
"The Bloodhound" by Arthur Train
"What the Old Man Does is Always Right" by Hans Christian Andersen
"The Sea of Grass" (A Novel) by Conrad Richter
"The Sire De Maletroits Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
"By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benet
"A.V. Laider" by Max Beerbohm
"The Pillar of Fire" by Percival Wilde
"The Strange Will" (from the Novel The Man with the Broken Ear) by Edmond About
"The Hand at the Window" (from the novel Wuthering Heights) by Emily Bronte and
"National Velvet" (A Novel) by Enid Bagnold
Note:
Country restrictions may apply - the lesser expansive Priority or 1st Class shipping may not be available to all countries.
US: Priority (c 2-4 days) -------- $10.50
Canada: 1st Class (c 2-6 weeks) -- $26.50
World: 1st Class (c 2-7 weeks) --- $34.50
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