signed first edition 255 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
1877 · Boston
by Jewett, Sarah Orne
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First edition, first issue, one of 1280 copies. 255 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth embossed in black and gilt, all edges red. Some staining to cloth; extremities worn; corners rubbed; spine ends pushed and beginning to fray; hinges cracked by holding. Some spotting and staining throughout, particularly to early and later leaves, including the inscription leaf and title page. First edition, first issue, one of 1280 copies. 255 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by Jewett to her schoolteacher: "Miss Olive Raynes - From her affectionate but naughty little scholar / Sarah O. Jewett / April 1877." The book was published on March 1.
Olive Raynes (1833-1923) was a beloved teacher in South Berwick, Maine, where Jewett was born and where she lived her whole life, and fictionalized in her literature. Raynes taught Jewett and her sisters from a school in the Raynes family shoe business, down the street from the Jewett family home. The Raynes family owned most of the land across from where the Jewetts lived and played as girls. BAL 10871 (Inventory #: 371563)
Olive Raynes (1833-1923) was a beloved teacher in South Berwick, Maine, where Jewett was born and where she lived her whole life, and fictionalized in her literature. Raynes taught Jewett and her sisters from a school in the Raynes family shoe business, down the street from the Jewett family home. The Raynes family owned most of the land across from where the Jewetts lived and played as girls. BAL 10871 (Inventory #: 371563)
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