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Contentment better than wealth

Title: Contentment better than wealth / by Alice B. Neal, (Cousin Alice).
Author: Haven, Alice B. (Alice Bradley), 1827-1863.
Publication: New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1853.

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Description

viii, [1], 10-188, 2, [2] p., [5] leaves of plates. : ill.; 18 cm.

Alternative Title

Contentment is better than wealth.

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Genre/Form

Juvenile literature – New York (State) – New York – 1853.

Note

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1852.
Added chromolithograph title page.
Publisher's catalog 2, [2] p. follows text.
Engravings signed Jocelyn, eng and AH del.

Source (note)

Mrs. Edwin Gamble

Provenance (note)

Inscribed: in graphite, "Helen Neilson" on second upper free end leaf.

Binding (note)

Bound in publisher's gilt pictorial brown cloth boards.

Contents

Chapter i, The first sorrow -- Chapter ii, A friend in need -- Chapter iii, Plans and prospects -- Chapter iv, London and Liverpool -- Chapter v, The voyage -- Chapter vi, The arrival -- Chapter vii, Disappointments -- Chapter viii, Dark days -- Chapter ix, Sickness -- Chapter x, Two visits -- Chapter xi, A choice of friends -- Chapter xii, The new house.

Call Number

*KH 1853 Haven 12-110

OCLC

24958644

Author

Haven, Alice B. (Alice Bradley), 1827-1863.

Title

Contentment better than wealth / by Alice B. Neal, (Cousin Alice).

Imprint

New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1853.

Provenance

Inscribed: in graphite, "Helen Neilson" on second upper free end leaf. NN

Binding

Bound in publisher's gilt pictorial brown cloth boards. NN

Source

Gift ; Mrs. Edwin Gamble 4 Wilson Street, Topsham, ME 04086. NN

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D. Appleton and Company. Publisher

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Cover Title

Contentment is better than wealth.

Research Call Number

*KH 1853 Haven 12-110

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