Publisher:
Charles Scribner & Company: 1868
549 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, original purple cloth, gilt spine lettering, [xii] + 549 pages + 4-pg publisher catalog in rear, tan endpapers, rag (cotton fiber) paper throughout. ; 1st edition in book form. Title page 1868. Copyright page 1867. No additional printings. ; This was the first novel by the famed Congregationalist preacher. It was originally published in parts in the New York Ledger. A sprawling novel filled with all sorts of odd characters, family life, New England sociability, almost autobiographical. ; Cloth moderately worn at heel and crown, purple color mostly faded...
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