Author: TILLSON, CHRISTIANA HOLMES; MILO MILTON QUAIFE (ED.)
Title: A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois
Description: Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press, 1919. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, embossed publisher's medallion on front cover in gilt, t.e.g. fore-edge and bottom edge deckle. Illustrated with two portraits of the author. So many pioneer stories were written at the request of a child or grandchild. What makes Christiana Tillson's humorous memoir different was her background. Tillson's story records the reactions produced upon a refined New England woman by an environment at once predominantly southern and wholly frontier. Her youth in 1822 and her parting from all that she had known in the East were common of many later Western migrants. But when she and her husband went out to try their fortunes, the "West" was what we today call the Midwest. It was still a wild, dangerous, and uncertain place to try to make a future. Head and heel of spine are very, very slightly rubbed, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 17. Two Portraits. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxi, 169 pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: Americana; Illinois History; Lakeside Classics; Biography; Memoir; Frontier Illinois; Memoir; Humor; Biography & Memoir Women Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
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Title: A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois
Description: Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press, 1919. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, embossed publisher's medallion on front cover in gilt, t.e.g. fore-edge and bottom edge deckle. Illustrated with two portraits of the author. So many pioneer stories were written at the request of a child or grandchild. What makes Christiana Tillson's humorous memoir different was her background. Tillson's story records the reactions produced upon a refined New England woman by an environment at once predominantly southern and wholly frontier. Her youth in 1822 and her parting from all that she had known in the East were common of many later Western migrants. But when she and her husband went out to try their fortunes, the "West" was what we today call the Midwest. It was still a wild, dangerous, and uncertain place to try to make a future. Head and heel of spine are very, very slightly rubbed, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 17. Two Portraits. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxi, 169 pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: Americana; Illinois History; Lakeside Classics; Biography; Memoir; Frontier Illinois; Memoir; Humor; Biography & Memoir Women Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
Price: US$ 350.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 15960
- Book number: 15960
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