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New York: Eaton & Mains, (1906). First Edition. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), 283 pp. Near Fine. Illustrated. “It was a sunny Friday afternoon in the first fortnight of September, in the year of grace seventeen hundred and seventy-seven. The soft autumnal breeze that coquetted with the broad green leaves of Peggy Hambleton’s ungainly but hospitable catalpas was born in the southwest, as the lazy weather-vane attached to the eastern gable of Neighbor Reese’s barn, just across the way, plainly indicated. The idlers about the premises, who were more numerous than usual, noted the direction of the wind, and commented upon it ominously, regarding it as portentous of disagreeable events that were likely to have their inception in the southwest quarter. Peggy’s log cottage of a story and a half occupied the northeast angle of the (Old) Lancaster and Howelltown roads, in that portion of Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, which comprises the northern suburbs of the present… Read More

BiblioBazaar, 2009-11-17. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.