Item #43853 The Story of Aunt Lizzie Aiken. Mary Eleanor Roberts ANDERSON, Mrs. Galusha.

The Story of Aunt Lizzie Aiken.

Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1880. Hardcover. 16mo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. 226pp, (14pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Good plus. A bit edgeworn, mainly at spine head/tail, with delicate inner hinges expertly, archivally strengthened and thus tight; text block nice, clean and very good. Item #43853

A nice first edition of this popular account of "America's Florence Nightingale," Eliza N. Atherton Aiken (1817-1906), a New York-born Illinoisan who nursed the 6th Illinois Cavalry during the Civil War. Quite uncommon.

Price: $100.00

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