first edition Hard Cover
1879 · Boston
by Susan Coolidge [Sarah Chauncey Woolsey]
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A clean First Edition copy of this tale which was first serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine. In the publisher's blue cloth, with decorations stamped in gold and in black. With wood-engraved frontispiece and three additional full page plates, as well as vignettes. Some wear to the spine extremities and a discreet repair to the top of the rear joint. There are no marks of any kind. 247 pp. plus 12 pp. of publisher's ads. Very Good binding. (Inventory #: 280979)