Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[WALKER (or HAMILTON), MARY, Lady.] Munster Village, A Novel. [2], 202, [2]; [2], 260 pages, including ad leaf at end of Volume 2; lacks half-titles(?). 2 volumes. Small 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf, spines darkened and worn, ends chipped, one lettering piece off, Volume 2 front cover loose; contents clean. London: Robson and Co. et al., 1778

Additional Details

scarce first edition of a proto-feminist novel set in a utopian educational community. NCBEL II, 1005; not in Block. ESTC locates the Bodleian copy in Great Britain and the Ohio State, Pennsylvania, and Yale copies in the United States. No copy has ever been listed in American Book Prices Current.