MIRIAM AND JOANNA OF NAPLES; with other pieces in verse and prose
signed first edition
1850 · Boston
by HALL, Louisa J (Park)
Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1850. First edition, thus. 8vo, pp. 403. Bound in heavily gilt stamped red cloth (spine cloth loose, front cover nearly separate). AEG. Inscribed on the end paper "To Mary | with the love of E. B. Hall | Providence | May 21, 1857". (note, the copyright is listed in the name of E. B. Hall, Hall's husband). In addition,this is inscribed: "from C(harlotte) P(erkins) Gilman | to Alice Park | April 1916 | to Harriet Putnam Cramer | Aug - 1916" (probably in the hand of Alice Park? or maybe Gilman?). Note: we have had this book since 1990 (truncated)