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Larcom, Lucy. Wheaton Seminary: A Semi-Centennial Sketch. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1885.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1885. First edition. Card inlaid giving notice of finding 600 of these books in 1962, signed by Margaret Clayton. Light green hardcover with gilt lettering. Frontispiece with tissue protector. Illustrations with tissue protectors. 94pp. VERY GOOD. Nicely preserved. Seems unread.
Seller: Aldersgate Books Inc., Niagara Falls, NY, U.S.A.
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Description: Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1885. 94 pages. Engraved portrait Laban Wheaton, 6 photomechanical views. 8.75 x 5.75", gold stamped cloth, top edge gilt. Established 1835; Larcom taught 1854-62; Bibliography of American Literature 11371, issue 1. VG.
Seller: Peter L. Masi - books, MONTAGUE, MA, U.S.A.
Larcom, Lucy. WHEATON SEMINARY; A SEMI-CENTENNIAL SKETCH. Riverside Press, 1885.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: Plain paper dust wrapper has hole cut out on spine to reveal book's title. ; Beautifully preserved olive cloth boards with gilt stamping on front cover and spine. History of seminary for girls in Norton, Massachusetts established in 1835. Glossy b/w plates in immaculate condition with tissue guards. Frontispiece etching of Laban Wheaton. ; 8vo; 94 pp
Seller: AVON HILL BOOKS, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Larcom, Lucy. Wheaton Seminary; A Semi-Centennial Sketch. Riverside Press, 1885.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth over boards. Bright gilt stamped front boards and on the spine. Top edge gilt. Clean and tight. B/W etched frontis. B/W photos with tissue.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
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Description: A splendid copy bound in olive green cloth stamped brightly in gilt on the front boards and on the spine. Top edges gilded. Very clean and tight, virtually unread. Illustrated with photographs protected by tissue guards. A superb, collectible copy of the poet's sketch of Wheaton Seminary. Larcom was one of the first teachers at Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College) in Norton, Massachusetts and taught there from 1854 to 1862. Larcom was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1824 as the ninth of ten children. Her father died when she was eight years old, causing her mother to become a boardinghouse keeper to bring in income for the family. At age eleven in 1835 she left home to work in cotton mills in Lowell as a doffer, hoping to earn some extra money for her family. She made a huge impact during her 10 years there; she wrote many songs, poems, and letters describing the mill-girl life, and got them published, and her idealistic poems caught the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier. She served as a model for the change in women's roles in society. She was a friend of Harriet Hanson Robinson, who worked in the Lowell mills at the same time and who also became a poet and author. Much later, Robinson would become prominent in the women's suffrage movement. Both contributed to the literary magazineLowell Offering. In the 1840s (circa 1846), Larcom taught at a school in Illinois before returning to Massachusetts. She went on to become one of the first teachers at Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College) in Norton, Massachusetts and taught there from 1854 to 1862. While there she helped to found Rushlight Literary Magazine, a submission-based student literary magazine which is still published today. From 1865 to 1873 she was the editor of the Boston-based Our Young Folks, which merged with St. Nicholas Magazine in 1874. In 1889 Larcom published one of the best-known accounts of New England childhood of her time, A New England Girlhood, commonly used as a reference in studying antebellum American childhood. This autobiographical text covers the early years of her life, in Beverly Farms and Lowell, Massachusetts. Larcom died at age 69 on April 17, 1893 in Boston and was buried in her hometown of Beverly, Massachusetts.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
LARCOM, Lucy. WHEATON SEMINARY. , 1885.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: LARCOM, Lucy. WHEATON SEMINARY; A Semi-Centennial Sketch. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1885. First edition, first issue. 8vo., green cloth, title stamped in gilt to the spine and front cover, illustrated. Very good plus; frontispiece and title-page are loose; light wear to spine and extremities; bookplate. Scarce. (BAL 11371).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.