New York: Dayton & Newman, 1843.
Price: $350.00
Hardcover. First edition. 24mo. Purple cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Neat contemporary pencil owner name, slight rubbed spot on the front board, and subtle sunning at the spine, near fine. Fiction for young adults. Mary S.B. Dana Schindler (1810-1883) was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, and moved to Charleston at a young age. She was a prolific author of poetry, prose, fiction, and children's literature (including *The Young Sailor*, *Southern Harp*, *Northern Harp, Parted Family*, and perhaps her best-known work, *Letters to Relatives and Friends*). In 1835 she married Charles E. Dana, and spent time in New York City and Bloomington, Iowa; following the death of her husband and child, she returned to Charleston. In 1848 she married Rev. Robert D. Schindler, and lived in Nacogdoches, Texas. *Wright I* 2383.
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