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School and Library:
9781419721335 | Abrams Appleseed, September 6, 2016, cover price $16.95
Product Description: "GOUVERNEUR MORRIS has gone back to the opening of the civil war for the scene of his latest romance, "Aladdin O'Brien," but his book is removed as far as possible from the many tales which have lately been built upon that much-abused theme, and its title, with its odd suggestion of East and West, is quite in harmony with the quaint fancies and delicate humor that are so adroitly mingled with strong and pathetic situations...read more
Hardcover:
9781606648971, titled "Alexander's Bridge" | Lightning Source Inc, May 30, 2008, cover price $22.95
9780548015506, titled "Alexander's Bridge" | Kessinger Pub Co, July 30, 2007, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780803211322, titled "Alexander's Bridge" | Univ of Nebraska Pr, July 1, 2007, cover price $75.00
9781421986883, titled "Alexander's Bridge" | Indypublish.Com, March 30, 2006, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
9781421809984, titled "Alexander's Bridge" | 1st World Library, February 28, 2006, cover price $26.95
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Paperback:
9781512266825, titled "Alexander's Bridge" | Createspace Independent Pub, May 18, 2015, cover price $6.99
9781511574570, titled "Alexander's Bridge" | Createspace Independent Pub, April 3, 2015, cover price $7.90
9781502867421, titled "Alexander's Bridge" | Createspace Independent Pub, November 1, 2014, cover price $9.99
9781501033254, titled "Alexander's Bridge" | Createspace Independent Pub, October 3, 2014, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by American author Willa Cather, first published in 1912.
9781502403346, titled "Alexander's Bridge" | Createspace Independent Pub, September 26, 2014, cover price $9.99
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Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781556852879, titled "Alexander's Bridge" | Audio Book Contractors, January 1, 1993, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Willa Cather's first novel is a love story set in sophisticated Boston and London drawing-rooms.
Hardcover:
9780553533910 | Board book edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, July 14, 2015), cover price $7.99
9780375869242 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 25, 2014, cover price $16.99
Library:
9780375969249 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 25, 2014, cover price $19.99
Product Description: Coca, Southern California. A small town on a wild river, at the margins of the red-rocked desert and the forest where the last of the state's Native Americans still make their home. When Boa, the charismatic new mayor, decides to put Coca on the map, he plans a monumental new project: a six-lane bridge, two hundred metres high, designed and destined to catapult the city into the third millennium...read more
Paperback:
9780857053787, titled "The Birth of a Bridge" | Gardners Books, July 2, 2015, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: Coca, Southern California.
9780889228894 | Talonbooks Ltd, October 7, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes this literary saga of a dozen men and women  engineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers  all employees of the international consortium charged with building a bridge somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California.
School and Library:
9781585362837 | Sleeping Bear Pr, September 1, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Although it will mean that their father can no longer make a living running a ferry boat, thirteen-year-old Mark and his brother Luke are excited about the building of a five-mile bridge across the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan in 1957.
With rumors milling that the Golden Gate Bridge is a structure that simply cannot be built, Robert believes differently as he watches his father, a skywalker, and his coworkers set out to the dangerous job they do and, in the end, prove the skeptics wrong with the completion of one of the most magnificent bridges in the world. 30,000 first printing.
Miscellaneous:
9780547543963 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 2006, cover price $17.00
School and Library:
9780152047733 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 2006, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
Following a fire in P. T. Barnum's circus stable, a young German immigrant becomes caught up in New York's criminal underworld while falling in love with an Irish girl, as he becomes the target of a city-wide arson investigation, struggling to stay alive, win the woman he loves, and build a new life in late-nineteenth-century New York. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Paperback:
9780812970852 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, February 14, 2006), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Following a fire in P.
Hardcover:
9780393058864 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Angry with the local government's meddling in local affairs, the small New England town of Salt Cove decides to secede from the United States, in a tale recounted by septuagenarian Jessica, who harbors a passion for a much younger man.
Paperback:
9780393327083 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2005), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Angry with the local government's meddling in local affairs, the small New England town of Salt Cove decides to secede from the United States, in a tale recounted by septuagenarian Jessica, who harbors a passion for a much younger man.
German Georg arrives in Manhattan on the run from a scandal. He becomes a stableboy, tending circus-owner Barnum's menagerie, until he is framed for an arson attack and finds himself once again on the run. He falls into the hands of the Whyos gang, with whom he is reborn as an Irish labourer, unaware of the part in crime they have in mind for him.
Hardcover:
9781400061501 | Random House Inc, March 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Following a fire in P.
Paperback:
9780099478768 | New edition (Gardners Books, April 6, 2006), cover price $14.35 | About this edition: German Georg arrives in Manhattan on the run from a scandal.
9780434013319 | Gardners Books, April 7, 2005, cover price $18.10 | About this edition: Falling into the hands of the Whyos, a gang who communicate with each other by means of a complicated system of songs and calls, he is reborn as an Irish labourer and takes a job as a sewerman, unaware of the part in crime the Whyos have in mind for him.
In the tense aftermath of the Civil War, the construction of the East River bridge becomes a target for a group of Southern partisans, led by a fanatical captain, as Detective Tom Braddock's investigation into a murder uncovers hints of the conspiracy and puts his own life in jeopardy. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780312203719 | St Martins Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In the tense aftermath of the Civil War, the construction of the East River bridge becomes a target for a group of Southern partisans, led by a fanatical captain, as Detective Tom Braddock's investigation into a murder uncovers hints of the conspiracy and puts his own life in jeopardy.
Paperback:
9780312284640 | Reprint edition (Griffin, July 1, 2002), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In the tense aftermath of the Civil War, the construction of the East River bridge becomes a target for a group of Southern partisans, led by a fanatical captain, as Detective Tom Braddock's investigation into a murder uncovers hints of the conspiracy and puts his own life in jeopardy.
Judith Barnes is caught up in the politics of the construction industry when the new bridge in Port Winter is built
Hardcover:
9780786216444 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 1998), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Judith Barnes is caught up in the politics of the construction industry when the new bridge in Port Winter is built
Hardcover:
9780684819075 | Simon & Schuster, February 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The noted author's first novel, here issued with a set of background-setting photographs, relates the story of engineer Bartley Alexander, who, as he is about to take a chance and start a new life, is beset by tragedy
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