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Hard cover, 8vo, (3 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches) in brown pebbled cloth blind- stamped border design to both boards, the titles in gilt to the spine, along with a cross device in gold and silver, 315 pp., frontispiece, plus 8 page publisher's catalogue of juvenile titles, First Edition. Jaunty plaid endpapers. Condition: Very Good plus. Spine lightly sunned, as is a small corner of the cover. Corners are very lightly bumped but the book is in enviable physical condition. ** A coming-of-age novel by New York Author Alice Bradley Neal (1828 - 1863), a writer of popular fiction and juvenile titles. She was first married to the editor of the outfit which published her first work, The Philadelphia Gazette's Joseph C. Neal. After his early demise, she stepped in to fill that role while also submitting her own work to other publications. Appleton printed a number of her works, (Wright, 1978, p. 153). ** The novel is set in Philadelphia and concerns the travails of a beleaguered step-daughter and her sister, forced into virtual servitude in the care of a host of half-siblings. This is one of the author's later titles, and scarce. OCLC 7649890.
Ref: JUVI 8197
$50.00