Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

by Alice Caldwell Hegan

$100 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

First edition

New York: The Century Co., MCMII 1902 . 8vo., 153 pp., title vignette, headpieces. Glazed green cloth boards, title stamped in cream beneath a simple stamped illustration of a woman in red with a farm scene silhouetted by a cream skyline, untrimmed. Spine slightly askew, minor fraying to the edges of the backstrip, internally bright; very good. § Early printing of the first edition of the author’s first book. In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch,

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