Fifteen, A Story for Girls

New York: A.L. Burt Company, Publisher, 1882. Cloth. Very good +. [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Copyright 1882 by Bradley & Woodruff. 12mo; 368pp; green pictorial cloth over board, lettering stamped in black on front, illustration of a girl wearing a red dress and hat riding a horse stamped on front; silver gilt title stamped on spine; ownership and "Christmas 1908" on ffep; fp; sunning of spine, light foxing of edges; very good plus. OCLC locates only 3 copies. A book for older girls by the prolific author, Jennie Drinkwater Conklin (1841-1900). She started writing books as a child and continued after her marriage to the Rev. Nathaniel Conklin, a Presbyterian minister in N.J. This is an attractively bound book, with many cover variations for this title, as printed by A.L. Burt, Publishers.