A Little Maid of Boston (First Edition Inscribed by Author's Daughter)

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good/Near Fine. . 8vo., 423pp. plus 10 pages of publisher's ads. Beautiful First Edition bound in blue cloth with titles and illustration in black on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with some minor wear to spine ends and tips. Equally attractive and quite uncommon unclipped dust-jacket, ($1.75), has a few tiny chips and fairly minor soiling but still fresh and bright and a remarkably well-preserved example of an early wrapper. Full Inscription by her daughter Margaret Lothrop. Sidney was founder of the National Society of the Children of the American Revolution and the author of the "Five Little Peppers" series. Lothrop, her daughter, turned their historic home, "the Wayside", of Nathaniel Hawthorne fame, into a National Monument in 1927. "To Florence Rumbough the daughter of an old friend of mine. I am happy to write the following: I well remember the happy visit, which my mother, Mrs David Lothrop 'Margaret Sidney' and I, paid to Boston, England. We particularly enjoyed the Old Boston Stump and the market place. Margaret M. Lothrop the Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts. June Seventeenth, 1937. Bunker Hill Day." A simply gorgeous, unique, collectable copy.