At the Back of the North Wind

by George Macdonald

$2,500 · Offered by Heritage Book Shop

New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1871. First American copyright edition. Small octavo 6 15/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 175 x 125 mm . viii, 378, 2, blank pp. Seventy-six wood-engraved text illustrations after Arthur Hughes.This edition pre-dates that recorded by Sadleir as the first American edition and is almost certainly one of a few copies printed in England at the same time as the first English edition and

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