Description: First edition. 12mo, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt lettering. Two pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. The first book by Caroline Kirkland, an interesting realistic novel based on her first-hand experience of pioneer life with her husband and six children in a remote Michigan village. She writes in the preface that her work was in part inspired by and patterned on Mary Russell Mitford's famous sketches of life in an English town, Our Village, published in installments from 1824 to 1832.A New Home - Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life by Mrs. Mary Clavers [pseud], an Actual Settler[KIRKLAND, CAROLINE MATILDA]Published by New York: C. S. Francis; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1839, 1839First EditionHardcoverPre-owned, fair condition appears complete with original binding, front board barely connected, someone used front endpapers as notepaper for keeping sums, some foxing, water spots and browning, wear to boards and to spine
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: No
Publisher: Frances
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Region: North America
Author: Mrs. Mary Clavers
Personalized: No
Topic: Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
