first edition Publisher's pictorial light green cloth with silver and dark blue design and gilt lettering
1899 · New York:
by Graham (Margaret G. Todd, M.D.).
New York: Appleton, 1899 First United States edition. Published in London and Edinburgh in 1898. Publisher's pictorial light green cloth with silver and dark blue design and gilt lettering. Octavo. Binding slightly shaken. Some light toning but overall pages are clean. Ink signature of "E.W. Beck" and small numerical library stamp on front free endpaper. A lovely, near-fine, bright copy in a good original dust jacket. The present book tells the story of a young woman, Wilhelmina Galbraith, who grows up alone with her grandmother on a Scottish estate called Windyhaugh. A contemporary advertisement of this book, published in Blackwood's Magazine and reprinted (truncated)