RIFTED CLOUDS

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1893, Fourth Edition.  Hard cover, 360 pages.  Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine; black lettering on front board with gilt, black and green illustration.  Boards show edge and cover wear, some stains, corners and spine ends bumped and worn.  Binding cracked at front and rear, with all pages secure.  Black & white frontis of Author with tissue guard intact and illustration.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages; some fox/age spots on outer page block and tissue guard.  After marrying, Bella and her husband moved from England to the United States.  ‘Her own account will tell of the sickness and death on the voyage, the interment of the loved one in the stormy sea, the sorrowful landing, the illness and death of him who was her earthly support.  In the midst of these trials her health failed, and the weakness so much more manifested in later life began to appear.  Then every hope of self-help was reluctantly surrendered.’ (from Prefatory Note)