PENELOPE'S PROGRESS: Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton as Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland

Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1898

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The first American edition of this charming novel by the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903). Penelope Hamilton is a young American lady abroad in Scotland with her friends Francesca, who is "aggressively American", and Salemina, "a citizen of the world". Together they endure the damp chill of Edinburgh, attend an aristocrat's birthday feast, are presented at the Scottish court, explore the countryside, and immerse themselves in the society of small-town Scottish life. Small octavo: [viii], 268, [2] pp. The title page is printed in red and black. In the publisher's red, white, yellow, blue, and black woven tartan patterned cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titling. The buff endpapers feature a light green stylized thistle pattern. In the scarce dust jacket, which is a bit toned, unevenly so on the front panel, with some light edgewear. Some offsetting to the endpapers from the dust jacket; else an exquisite example. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin.

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Title
PENELOPE'S PROGRESS: Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton as Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland
Author
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York
Publication year
1898
Condition
Near fine
Dust jacket
Very good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First Edition.
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