Chit-chat, or short tales in short words. With engravings.

by the author of Always Happy, &c. Third edition, enlarged by Maria Elizabeth Budden

$200 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Philadelphia: Thomas T. Ash, Adam Waldie, printer, 1831. Square 16mo, pp. 170; 8 wood-engraved plates; original blue cloth, printed pink label on upper cover; 3 signatures extended and the whole slightly shaken, otherwise very good. A mother's presentation to her daughter at the top of the title page reads: Eliza S. Trumbull - from her Mama. Eliza has also written her name in pencil on the cover label. The recipient, Eliza, was likely the daughter of Eliza

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