1844 · New York
by Murray, Charles Augustus
New York: Harper & Bros, 1844. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 207, [1]; text in double column; bound with: Pickering, Ellen, Miss. The Grumbler. A novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844, first American edition, 8vo, pp. 134, [2] ads; text in double column; old boards with an amateur rebacking in goat; bookplates of Kitty C. Shay and Miss H. E. Clapper, South Bainbridge. Scruffy and worn, a few pages loosening; good. The Prairie-Bird is Murray's first novel. He achieved fame five years earlier as the author of Travels in North America During the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836. which was first published in 3 volumes by Bentley in London earlier (truncated)