The Mothers: An American Saga of Courage

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1943. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1943. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 334pp. Boards in oatmeal cloth with blue stamping, wrapped in publisher's price-clipped illustrated jacket. Jacket generally lightly toned with creasing, torn, and lightly chipped at margins. Verso shows shadows of previous owner tape repairs that have since been removed. Board corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed with water staining to spine and light staining to margins. Endsheets lightly offset and toned. Previous owner name at half-title, otherwise pages clean if toned at margins. A Very Good copy in like jacket. A mid-career novel of the Donner party and the mothers who persevere through the hardest of struggles.