Angle of Repose

American frontier historical fiction, a portrait of four generations in the life of an American family, and suggested by the true story of Mary Hallock Foote, daughter of a wealthy New York Quaker family, born in 1847, who left her life of comfort and culture to live in shacks in western towns where she was often the only educated woman.

Publisher: William Heinemann. First English edition
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Spots of foxing to extremities, else very good in dustwrapper.


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