Somebody's Neighbors / Rose Terry Cooke

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Somebody's Neighbors / Rose Terry Cooke

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.76

Description

421 pages. Cooke was best known for her fresh and humorous fiction dealing mainly with New England country life. Contents: Eben Jackson.--Miss Lucinda.--Dely's cow.--Squire Paine's conversion.--Miss Beulah's bonnet.--Cal Culver and the devil.--Amandar.--Polly Mariner, tailoress.--Uncle Josh.--Poll Jennings's hair.--Freedom Wheeler's controversy with providence.--Mrs. Flint's married experience.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1880s

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

5 in

Book Details

Author

Rose Terry Cooke

Edition

First

Publisher

James R. Osgood & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1881

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Eastlake Design

Binding Notes

Bound in bright blue cloth with black stamping in an Eastlake design with diagonal orientation. Author's name stamped in black to spine (unusual).

Notes

Bookplate of John Henry Thorston on endpaper. "Book Received at George Haskells Memorial Service 6-23-06" written on flyleaf.