Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, H. J. Smith, 1889. Cloth with 1/4 leather. Very good. Brown cloth with 1/4 leather, gilt lettering on front and spine, gilt emblem on front, leather on corner, gilt page edges, wear at head and foot of spine, small tears where spine meets front cover, edges rubbed, front hinge tight but front endpaper has mostly separate. Front cover has fading to top two inches.

Frances Willard was educator, suffragist and was the long time president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Introduction by Hannah Whitall Smith, a Quaker and Reformer from Philadelphia who worked in British temperance movements. Page 384 has a photograph of Anna A. Gordon which has some scribbles in blue pencil. 698 pp., plus 6 page appendix about Willard's ancestry.

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Bookseller: Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1263
Title: Glimpses of Fifty Years
Author: Willard, Frances E
Format/Binding: Cloth with 1/4 leather
Book Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, H. J. Smith
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: 1889
Keywords: Temperance, Women's suffrage, Nineteenth Century Reformers

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