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Under the Wheel Under the Wheel, A Modern Play in Six Scenes.  Boston: Barta Press, 1890.  51 pp.

note: in paper covers, printed from the plates of the magazine printing: Arena 2 (July 1890): 182-228. 

The inscriptions are Garland's: (L) "Privately performed in Boston published later by the Arena Co. as a novel Jason Edwards"; (R) "My First book. Written in 1889 in Boston. Library copy." (Courtesy USC)

Under the Wheel: Title page

Main Travelled Roads.

Main-Travelled Roads, 1891 Main-Travelled Roads: Six Mississippi Valley Stories.
Boston: Arena, 1891.  260 pp.

Contents: "A Branch Road," "Up the Coulé," "Among the Corn Rows," "The Return of the Private," "Under the Lion's Paw," "Mrs. Ripley's Trip."  (Courtesy Gary Culbert)

Main-Travelled Roads, 1891: Title page
Main-Travelled Roads, 1st cheap reprinting Boston: Arena, 1891.  260 pp.

First reprinting, 1891.

(Courtesy Gary Culbert)

Main-Travelled Roads, 1st cheap reprinting, title page
Main-Travelled Roads, Paper cover, 1st thousand Boston: Arena, 1891.  260 pp.
Arena Library Series, Vol. 1, no. 2.

First paper issue, published June 1891.   

(Courtesy Gary Culbert)

Maini-Travelled Roads, 1st paper issue: title page
Main-Travelled Roads, 1891 reprinting Boston: Arena, 1891.  260 pp.

Later reprinting, 1891, with frontispiece photograph.

(Courtesy Gary Culbert)

 

Main-Travelled Roads, 1891 reprinting: title page
Main-Travelled Roads, 1892 reprinting Boston: Arena, 1892.  260 pp.

1892 reprinting, with frontispiece photograph.

(Courtesy Gary Culbert)

Main-Travelled Roads, 1892 reprinting, title page
Main-Travelled Roads: Arena edition, paper cover Boston: Arena, 1892.  260 pp.
Arena Library Series, Vol. 1, no. 4

Later paper issue.  Drawing of Garland as farmer by Laura Lee.  Scan is of Garland's personal copy.  

 (Courtesy USC)     [Title page scan is of a later impression.]

Main-Travelled Roads, 1892 paper edition: Title page

Main-Travelled Roads, British edition As Main-Travelled Roads. Mississippi Valley Stories.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. 260 pp.

(Courtesy Gary Culbert)

Main-Travelled Roads, British edition, title page

Main-Travlled Roads--1893
As Main-Travelled Roads, Being Six Stories of the Mississippi Valley. Introduction by William Dean Howells.  Decorations by H. T. Carpenter.
Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1893. 251 pp.

note: with sepia frontispiece sketch by Carpenter

Main-Travelled Roads, 1893: title page
Main-Travelled Roads, 1893: smooth cover version Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1893. 251 pp.

Smooth cloth cover.

(Courtesy Gary Culbert)

Main-Travelled Roads, Stone and Kimball, smooth cover title page
Main-Travelled Roads, large paper issue Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1893. 251 pp.

Large paper issue, 7-5/8 x 5-7/8; handmade wove paper.  110 copies, numbered and signed by publishers.

(Courtesy Gary Culbert)
publisher's limitation page

Main-Travelled Roads, Stone and Kimball, large paper edition title page

Maint Travelled Roads--1898

As Main-Travelled Roads, Being Six Stories of the Mississippi Valley.  A New Edition, with an Introduction by William Dean Howells and Decorations by H. T. Carpenter.
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1898. 251 pp.

note: printed from the plates of the 1893 edition, but with no frontispiece and with 10 pp of ads for Herbert S. Stone books at back.
variant cover

Main-Travelled Roads, 1898: title page

Main-Travelled Roads, 1899 New York and London: Macmillan, 1899.  299 pp.

Adds "The Creamery Man, "A Day's Pleasure," "Uncle Ethan Ripley."

(Courtesy USC)

Main-Travelled Roads, 1899: Title page

Sunset Edition Sunset Edition.  
New York and London: Harper [1912]. 299 pp.
Reprint of 1899 edition.

note: since all volumes of the Sunset Edition were reprinted from the plates of earlier editions, there is no copyright marker of the Sunset edition.  The copyright page for this edition simply notes, "Copyright, 1891 , by the Arena Publishing Company.  Copyright, 1893, 1899, by Hamlin Garland."

MTR, 1909--title page

New York: Harper, 1912.  2 vols. Reprint of 1899 edition.

New York: Harper, 1920.  377 pp.  Reprint of 1899 edition.  

Adds "God's Ravens," "A 'Good Fellow's' Wife."


MTR--Border edition Border Edition.  
New York and London: Harper [1922].  377 pp. Reprint of 1920 edition.

note: contains a new Foreword by HG, pp. xi-xiv, dated March 1, 1922.

scan of dustjacket

MTR--border edition: title page

Main-Travelled Roads, 1930 Illustrated by Constance Garland.
New York and London: Harper, 1930. 406 pp. 
Reprint of 1920 edition.

Adds "The Fireplace."  

scan of dustjacket

Main-Travelled Roads, 1930: Title page
 

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