Dream-Life: A Fable of the Seasons
New York: Charles Scribner, 1851.
Price: $125.00
Hardcover. First edition, first state with stereotyper's slug on the the copyright page with five dots (not six) before number 56 on page v and the word "World" in broken type on contents page vi. 286pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Dedicated to Washington Irving. Blind and gilt-embossed black cloth, top edge gilt. Gutter broken between pages 144-145, thin dampstain line on top edge of frontispiece, pages foxed, spine faded and cocked with spine ends and corners chipped, a fair to good only copy.
Item #397184
Ik Marvel
birth name: Donald Grant Mitchell
born: 4/12/1822
died: 12/15/1908
Biography
American farmer and writer known for nostalgic, sentimental books on American life, especially Reveries of a Bachelor(1850). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore