Search Results: the unfortunate mountain girl a collection by l j pratt

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-09-12. Paperback. Good.

Boston: Damrell & Moore, 1858. Early edition. First published in 1854 with the same title but different contents. Fifteen stories of Christian virtue and traditional values. Written by a blind girl from Vermont. 158 pp, woodcut illustrations. Small hardcover. 6 x 4 inches. Embossed blue cloth with gilt lettering. VG with moderate wear and signs of age. Sound binding. Foxing/stains to the title and frontispiece, but text is generally clean throughout. Early pencil inscription on a blank page reads: "Composed by a Blind girl / and bought for Albert H. Lindley." The author was from West Berkshire in the Green Mountains and says in the preface that she was blind from age 11. Little more is known about her, but she was part of a genre of blind female authors who found success with a sympathetic public in the mid-19th century. Writing was considered useful self-improvement in an era when traditional employment and marriage were not viewed as viable for blind women. Publishers marketed the novelty, and… Read More

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Boston: Boston: Printed By Dambrell & Moore, 1856, 1856 Decorative Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. Biography. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. slight spine bump, foxing, 160 pgs frontis and title pg have small chips not affecting engraving or text, pencils marks inside front board,. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. First Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Rutland: Geo. A. Tuttle & Co, 1855. 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's brown pictorial gilt-stamped cloth; [2],173pp. Partial orange paint ringstain to upper cover, spine cloth sunned, textblock a bit shaken in covers, late 19th-century ownerhsip rubberstamps to front pastedown and endpaper, else Very Good and sound. The blind Vermont author's second published work, aboult Lizza, the daughter of a "Gypsy," inspired by the success of the blind Boston author Helen De Kroyft. Unlike De Kroyft, however, Pratt wrote not to alleviate poverty, but to "devote...to the causes fo self-culture and Christian liberalism" (James Emmett Ryan, "The Blind Authoress of New York," in the "American Quarterly," Vol. 51, no. 2, June, 1999, p. 405). WRIGHT II 1949, citing the first (1854) edition.

Rutland: Tuttle, 1855. Second edn. 8vo, pp. 176. Stamped red cloth, a very good copy. See Wright II, 1949. The story of a Gypsy girl written by a blind woman from West Berkshire, VT.

Rutland: Geo. A. Tuttle, 1855. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second edition (first is 1854), and the first Rutland edition. Small octavo. Publisher's brown decorated cloth gilt. Light wear, an attractive, very near fine copy. The story of a Gypsy girl by a blind woman from Vermont.

Middlebury: Register Book and Job Office, 1854. First edn. 8vo, pp. 176. Stamped red cloth, a very good copy. Wright II, 1949. The story of a Gypsy girl written by a blind woman from West Berkshire, VT.