Author: LESLEY, SUSAN I.
Title: Recollections of My Mother, Mrs. Anne Jean Lyman of Northampton: Being a Picture of Domestic and Social Life in New England in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1899. Hardcover. ISBN: 0805012745. Originally privately distributed to family in 1875, this reminiscence by Susan I. Lesley tells of her mother and other family members and family friends as they lived in various houses in Massachusetts. With a tissue-guarded frontis image of Mrs. Lyman by D. O. Kimberly and other illustrations on plates, showing these houses. With a prefatory note by the author and an introduction by James Freeman Clarke. --- In ribbed brown cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling in gilt, top edge gilt and black endpapers. --- A clean, tightly-bound, well-preserved copy, though with inked gift inscription dated 1901, to front free endpaper and the beginnings of a split to front hinge (which doesn't affect the stability of the binding).; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; vi, 505 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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