A New Home - Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life by Mrs. Mary Clavers [pseud], an Actual Settler
by [KIRKLAND, CAROLINE MATILDA]
- Used
- Condition
- Some light foxing and wear; small ink stain on the spine; an unusually fine copy.
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: C. S. Francis; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1839, 1839. First edition. BAL 11139; Wright I, 1583; Sabin 37991. Some light foxing and wear; small ink stain on the spine; an unusually fine copy.. 12mo, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt lettering. Two pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. The first book by Caroline Kirkland, an interesting realistic novel based on her first-hand experience of pioneer life with her husband and six children in a remote Michigan village. She writes in the preface that her work was in part inspired by and patterned on Mary Russell Mitford's famous sketches of life in an English town, Our Village, published in installments from 1824 to 1832.
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- Bookseller
- The Brick Row Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27724
- Title
- A New Home - Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life by Mrs. Mary Clavers [pseud], an Actual Settler
- Author
- [KIRKLAND, CAROLINE MATILDA]
- Format/Binding
- BAL 11139; Wright I, 1583; Sabin 37991
- Book Condition
- Used - Some light foxing and wear; small ink stain on the spine; an unusually fine copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- New York: C. S. Francis; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1839
- Date Published
- 1839
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