410 pp. Red cloth with gilt and blind stamped decorations. Spine a bit duller than boards, a tiny bit of rubbing on the corners, a slight lean to the spine. Top edge greenish. P.O. bookplate. 'It was in 1835, about mid-winter, when Brier Dale was a narrow clearing, and the horizon well up in the sky and to anywhere a day's journey. Down by the shore of the pond, there, Allen built his house. To-day, under thickets of tansy, one may see the rotting logs, and there are hollyhocks and catnip in the old garden.'