Cat.No: 214134 The Diary of Mary Atkins: a sabbatical in the eighteen sixties. Mary Atkins, Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, Kathryn Uhl.
The Diary of Mary Atkins: a sabbatical in the eighteen sixties

The Diary of Mary Atkins: a sabbatical in the eighteen sixties

Mills College: Eucalyptus Press, March 1937. Hardcover. 46p., 7.5x10.25 inches, endpaper maps on blue stock, portrait-photo frontis tipped-in with facsimile author signature below, ship vignette on title page, introduction, unopened pages, very good first limited edition of 500 copies bound in blue cloth backing and blue pictorial boards, lightly-worn plain brown shipping dj included.

"Among the portrayers of the West from the 1830s to the 1860s are few women writers. Mary Atkins is one of this small number...one of the most individual characters among the American women who dedicated themselves to the work of education in the early and mid-nineteenth century"

Cat.No: 214134

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