Author: WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS
Title: The Old Peabody Pew a Christmas Romance of a Country Church
Description: Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson and Alice Barber Stephens. B&W Illustrations; This is a First Hardback edition, following a magazine appearance. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. Both the front cover and spine of the book have decorations in green, gold and red. The text pages are clean and bright. All the text pages have surrounding green ink illustrations. Included are six black and white illustrations. "After the marriage she continued to write under the name of Wiggin. Her literary output included popular books for adults; with her sister, Nora A. Smith, she published scholarly work on the educational principles of Friedrich Fröbel: Froebel's Gifts (1895) , Froebel's Occupations (1896) , and Kindergarten Principles and Practice (1896) ; [3] and she wrote the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903) , as well as the 1905 best-seller Rose o' the River. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm became an immediate bestseller; both it and Mother Carey's Chickens (1911) were adapted to the stage. Houghton Mifflin collected her writings in 10 volumes in 1917. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Kate Douglas Wiggin Romance Christmas Christmastime


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