Sketches of Green Mountain life; with an autobiography of the author

by Elizabeth Allen

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Lowell: Nathaniel L. Dayton, 1846. 12mo, pp. 160; contemporary blindstamped green cloth; boards soiled and lightly rubbed, textblock cocked, occasional spotting, ink burn on lower edge, good and sound. According to her autobiography, the author suffered an illness in late childhood that rendered her deaf, then traveled throughout the US, visiting many natural monuments and observing Joseph Smith at Kirtland, for whom she had few kind words. Of the prose itself

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