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Stanley, May Blue Meadows
Boston Little, Brown & Company 1933 NO 3rd printing Hardcover Very Good- in Good+ dj
[solid copy, soiling/spotting to top edge, light fading to cloth at edges, old seller's stamp at bottom corner of ffep; jacket heavily edgeworn, old tape reinforcements/repairs at corners and spine ends (internal except for top of spine, where some discoloration has resulted), various small tears, some paper loss surrounding top of spine (no text affected, nor is the front panel illustration)]. "Goodhaven lies in a sheltered hollow with the whole North Atlantic for its front dooryard. When Captain Elijah Bickers, masters of the Valhalla, married Abigail Hosmer, all Goodhaven wondered. Bickers men had been sailors for two hundred years and always would be. Abigail was not disturbed. Within the year she would make a farmer of Lige -- she wanted it so and she had always had what she wanted. Land was the one possession worth having, solid land, always in the same place. She coveted security, not the vast Atlantic that was her marriage portion. In Martha, Abigail's only child, all her mother's fear and hatred of the sea were intensified. Marriage took her far -- from the Maine Coast to the boundless Dakota prairies where she hoped Hosea Norton's love would keep her safe. And then across forty years and fifteen hundred miles the sea reached out for its own. This is a romance of the ocean and the prairies and of the simple folk who weave a durable pattern in the fabric of American life -- a novel of men 'who go down to the sea in ships' and of women who wait and sometimes rebel."
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40.00 USD
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