Worthy Women of Our First Century
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1877.
Price: $700.00
Hardcover. First edition. Edited by Mrs. O.J. Wister [Sarah Butler Wister] and Miss Agnes Irwin. Octavo. 328pp. Rust-colored cloth stamped in black and gilt. Neat contemporary ink inscription on front fly dated 1878, light wear to cloth at tips of two corners, else a very good or better copy. Undertaken by the desire of the Women's Department of the Centennial Commission. Includes chapters on notable American women. Co-editor Sarah Butler Wister was the mother Owen Wister author of the classic Western novel, *The Virginian*.
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