Overview
Hardcover in Fair condition. Pebbled cover with bumping on edges, spine is split at back cover and peeling. Spine is split internally on page 144-145. Signature of pages 145-192 is completely loose from book, but still bound together. All pages are accounted for. Another signature of pages is loose but still attached, pages 219-238. Despite this wear, pages are clean, bright and straight. See pictures for more details.
Published by Chas Scribner.
Excerpt from Miss. Gilbert's Career: An American Story
Dr. Theophilus gilbert was in a hurry. He had been in a hurry all night. He had been in a hurry all the morning. While the village of Crampton was asleep, he had amputated the limb of a young man ten miles distant, attended a child in convulsions on his way home, and assisted in introducing into existence an infant at the house of his next-door neighbor - how sad an exist ence - how terrible a life - neither he nor the poor mother, widowed but a month, could imagine.
Dr. Gilbert had taken an early breakfast, and still the black Canadian pony, with his bushy head down, the long hair over his eyes, and his shaggy fetlocks splashed with mud, flew around the village of Crampton, bearing the doctor in his gig, and stopping here and there at the houses of his patients without the straightening of a rein, as if the pony knew quite as well as the doctor where the sick people were, and had a private interest in the busi ness.