LOOKING WESTWARD
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. 1st Edition. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Very Good. Item #005317
1st edition. A Very Good copy. 12mo., 28 pp., illustrated with a b&w portrait frontispiece. Bound in black cloth backed grey paper over boards. Some light soiling and edge wear tot he lower tips. In the original publisher's glassine with "50 cents net" printed on the front panel of the glassine. A tide line along the front fore edge of the text block. Very Good. *** Virginian and author, Marion Harland (her pen-name), or Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune was a popular author of fiction, meant primarily for women. She went on to write non-fiction as well as a cookbook and domestic guide for women. This title, LOOKING WESTWARD, written while she was in her eighties, deals with growing old and the autumn of life. She mentions at a time when the average life expectancy was 45, a person of 40 could expect to reach 68, and how this would only be extended further in the future, as medical knowledge increased... ****.
Price: $60.00