My Wife and I: Or, Harry Henderson's History

New York: J. B. Ford and Company, 1871. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19.5cm). Terra cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt; green coated endpapers; viii,474,[2],[1]-7,[8]pp; 8pp publisher's ads at rear; frontispiece and 7 insrted plates. Straight but rubbed with minor wear, spine sunned, front hinge partly cracked, a few leaves chipped at extreme edges: Good or better.

"In her society novels—Pink and White Tyranny (1871), My Wife and I (1871), and We and Our Neighbors (1875)—Stowe used a loosely plotted journalistic fiction to comment on women's roles, reform, and domestic politics" (ANB). BAL 19462. WRIGHT II, 2394.