Laura E Richards Stepping Westward First Ed and similar items

STEPPING WESTWARD By Laura E. Richards New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931. First edition, first printing. Fifteen striking black-and-white plates containing 27 photographs. The autobiographical memoirs of a prolific author who grew up with numerous literary friends, including Louisa May Alcott and the Hawthorne family. She was the daughter of poet Julia Warde Howe, who wrote the BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUPULIC and reformer Samuel Gridley Howe who founded and directed the Massachusetts School for the Blind. Hers was a large family that lived in Boston and Cambridge area homes and had active interests including travel, literature, art, and education. In 1871 she wed architect Henry Richards, and moved to Maine to help with the family paper mill. This delightfully rich, anecdotal memoir is of the her ancestors, the people she knew, her travels, and her city, country and seashore life. Minute wear to the upper spine edge, two pages of the index a little roughly opened, else near fine in blue cloth over bluish-grey boards with titles and decorative borders in black to a beige spine label; in a very good dust jacket with some age-toning to the spine panel, tears to the edges and chips to the upper and lower spine ends; original $3.00 price still intact to the front inner flap. A rather fresh and well preserved copy in a scarce dust jacket. Octavo; 406 pages; preface; and index. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS!