A Picked Company: a novel
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. Hardcover. 416p. + [ii] backlist, offset at gutter of pages 200-201, bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, soiling to top edges and shelfwear, first edition hardcover bound in blue cloth boards with white titles and decoration of front cover.
Foote was a very popular author and illustrator, best known for her stories about mining camps in the American West. This was a popular novel about a band of pioneers traveling to the Oregon territories in the 1840s. Wallace Stegner's "Angle of Repose" was based upon Foote's correspondence.
Cat.No: 330515
Price: $45.00
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