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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Nabu Press, 2013. paperback. gebraucht, sehr gut leichte Gebrauchsspuren / minor wear, REPRINT. 21,41 x 14,86 x 1,85.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Boston: Isaiah Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1798. First edition. Contemporary sheep with morocco label to spine. Measuring 170 x 103mm and complete in 252 pages. Binding generally rubbed with minor chipping to spine label. Inner front hinge starting but holding well; a bit of worming to the rear pastedown and lower corner of rear endpaper. Contemporary ownership signature of Hannah Weed to front endpaper and bookplate of collector Bruce Lisman to front pastedown. Scattered foxing throughout, else an unmarked copy. The second work by the first native-born American woman novelist, it has become quite scarce. Currently the only first edition on the market, this title has appeared only four times at auction since 1983. The rare second novel by best-selling Massachusetts author Hannah Webster Foster. Only one year before, the release of her epistolary novel The Coquette made Foster a literary sensation. "Not only was it the first novel written by a native-born American woman, in its depiction of an… Read More