Hardcover. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1893, Portland Edition, hardcover, no dustjacket, 188pp. Language: English. Good condition: Text clean, unmarked. Intact; binding solid. Corners and edges worn and rubbed. Chipping to cloth on front. Faint spotting inside covers. Christmas 1893 gift inscription on 1st blank page. Pages are browned but still legible. Dark-green cloth-covered boards; spine covered in darkened white cloth. Gilt-stamped title and garland ornament on front cover; non- gilt titles stamped on spine. No advertisements. Sedate novel of small- town New England life, centering on schoolmaster and minister. Originally published in 1849. Keywords: American, classics, prose, fiction, literature.