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CUNNINGHAM, EDITH PERKINS, ED. Letters and journals of Edith Forbes Perkins, 1908-1925. Edited by her daughter.
[Cambridge], printed at the Riverside Press for private distribution, 1931. First edition, 8vo, 4 volumes; photogravure frontispiece and many handsome photogravures throughout each volume; uniformly bound in original deep purple cloth stamped and lettered in gilt on front covers and spines, t.e.g., the entire set contained in the original deep purple cloth-covered hinged box with clasp lined in silver paper; the books in near fine condition with the slightest dampstaining to spines; the box unevenly faded with hinge tender and cracking and two of the upper corners splitting. Edith Forbes Perkins (1843-1925) was the wife of Charles Elliott Perkins, president of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad from 1881-1901--the CB & Q being the oldest and largest component of what would become the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1970. Mrs. Perkins' letters and journals document the comings and goings of a high society woman in the Boston area, Burlington, IA (her birthplace), and Santa Barbara, CA, (where she died, a victim of the earthquake that toppled her residence, the Arlington Hotel). This copy inscribed by the editor in vol. I: "For Marjory Childs, from her friend, Edith P. Cunningham, Boston, March 1949."
Offered for US$ 312.50 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 27001