Aunt Jane of Kentucky
NY: Little, Brown & Co., 1909. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_cloth. 5.25"x7.5" 283 numbered and illustrated pages + 2 leafs of ads. Light khaki cloth boards w/3 colors of ink on front and navy & gilt letters on spine. Spine straight but flexible, binding flexible, pages clean w/soft tone. Not ex-library, unmarked, no DJ. Foxing to tissue cover of frontispiece. Mild edge and shelf wear with rubs and fraying. Small moisture stain to bottom of front board. Secure ship w/track #. Very Good-Collectible. Item #4352
This collection of short stories about the fictional quiltmaker Aunt Jane Parish was originally published in 1907 by Caroline Obenchain (who published under the name of Eliza Calvert Hall). Known for her gentle folk wisdom, Aunt Jane vividly describes a picturesque way of life in the rural South of the nineteenth century.
Sally Ann's Experience: "Roused to defend a woman who had taken church funds when her husband had denied her money to travel to see her dying daughter, Sally Ann stands up in church to denounce the large and small ways in.
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