The Thorn in the Nest by Martha Finley, M.A. Donohue, 1886, 305 pages. Chillicothe OH Author Rare Antique Book 


Condition: Covers are worn, material loss, stained, rubs, bumps, a 1.5" rip to pages 33/34, soiling, staining, fingerprints, toning due to age, pages are fragile.  There is pencil writing on the inside cover.  (Please review all photos for condition!)


Green covers with dark green lettering and graphics on the front cover and spine.  There is a pastedown on the front cover


from the internet:
Our story opens in spring of 1797, in a sequestered valley in Western Pennsylvania. On a green hillside dotted here and there with stately oaks and elms, and sloping toward the road, beyond which flowed the clear waters of a mountain stream, stood a brick farm-house - large, roomy, substantial; beautiful with climbing vines and flowering shrubs. Orchard, meadow, wheat and corn fields stretched away on either hand, shut in by dense forests and wooded hills; beyond and above which, toward the right, towered the giant Alleghenies; their summits, still white from the storms of the past winter, lying like a bank of snowy clouds against the eastern horizon. 
But night drew on apace, the light was fast fading even from the mountain tops, and down in the valley it was already so dark that only the outlines of objects close at hand were discernible as our hero, Kenneth Clendenin, mounted upon Romeo, his gallant steed, entered it from the west and slowly wended his way toward its one solitary dwelling. The road was familiar to both man and horse, and ere long they had reached the gate.


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