Little Mother and Her Christmas and Other Stories

Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., Publishers, 1881. Hardcover. Good. D. Lothrop & Co, 1881. Condition: Good. Fifth and Final edition of this book. Contains eight full-page, high-contrast, striking and evocative steel-engraved plate illustrations; and fourteen vignette to half-page illustrations from steel-engravings. Former church Sunday school library book with some library markings on the inside cover. Inner hinges cracked, but still holding, rub-wear and nicks to book edges and corners, wear and nicks to upper and lower spine edges, else good in waxed green cloth over illustrated boards; no dust jacket, as issued. Pages are unmarked, with the exception of a couple small smudges. Last page in book is adds for other books. 192 pages. OFFHALL An impressive Christmas and children's collectible book. Phebe F. McKeen was the assistant Principal (her sister Philena was the Principal) of the women's college, Abbot Academy from 1859 through her death of tuberculosis in 1880. During the 1870s she wrote a handful of main-stream publisher books for, and about children. All of her books are uncommon, this one is quite scarce. Phebe and her sister believed in equal rights for females and African-Americans (their home had been an underground railroad for most of the 19th century) and believed in advancing equal education for women (who had 'superior qualities'). Both of these Christmas stories are well-written with superior vocabulary for children and incorporate warm family values with the religious story, themes, and meanings of Christmas. 192 pp. HALL01