Author: Cheney, C. Emma
Title: Mistress Alice Jocelyn Her Letters. In the Which Be Set Forth an English Mayde's Voyage to the Province of Maine and What Did Befall Her Thereafter. Endeavoured by C. Emma Cheney
Description: Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, (1903). (1903). Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, (1903). (1903). Good. - Small octavo [6-3/8 inches high by 4-5/8 inches wide], pictorial tan paper covered boards backed with tan cloth & titled in black on the front board with a printed paper label on the spine. The binding is rubbed & bumped & the spine & extremities are darkened. The head of the spine is chipped & the label is rubbed & darkened. 88 pages, including the colophon. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece & decorations in orange & black. The top edge is darkened. There are small pieces out of the top edges of 2 leaves where they have been roughly opened. Internally, the book is bright and clean. Good.

Number 256 of a limited edition of 500 numbered copies.

Presentation copy inscribed by C. Emma Cheney and signed in full on the flyleaf. Good .

Keywords: AMERICANA; BLUE SKY PRESS; PIONEER; WOMAN PIONEER; MAINE; MISTRESS JOCELYN HER LETTERS; C. EMMA CHENEY; PRESENTATION COPY; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; LIMITED EDITION.

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