The Misdemeanours of Nancy

244pp. sixteen black and white plates (including tissue-guarded frontispiece). Red cloth-covered boards, round portrait pasted on front, yellow titles on front and spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed spine ends, cloth worn through. Front corners bumped. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tanning. Wear to boards, embossed lender’s stamp on front. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Cloth bleed on rear pastedown. Gutter’s strained in numerous places, volume quite loose but internally clean. Most of the material in this book appeared serially in the New York Sun, where the author was a reporter and editor, and in Everybody’s Magazine. Eleanor Hoyt’s parents were involved in the abolitionist movement.