The Royal Oak, and Other Stories. By a Western Teacher de (South-Western Tales) - 1845

Boston: Waite, Pierce and Company, 1845. First edition. Lithographed frontispiece, lithographer not noted. 144pp. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. Original publisher's cloth, spine gilt. Some rubbing, light marginal spotting or browning, children's signatures on blanks and endpapers" John Fornance", else a very good copy. First edition. Lithographed frontispiece, lithographer not noted. 144pp. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. There is a pencilled note in the lower margin of the title indicating that the stories are based along the lower Mississippi River, in the Natchez area. They are tales of "Western country families". Not in Wright Fiction