The Friendly Persuasion

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. First edition. Octavo with grey boards and green stamping; off-white pictorial jacket with red, green, blue and yellow motifs; 214 pages; 22 cm Near fine in good jacket; Jacket shows some tearing to spine and tape shadows at folds, and is now protected in archival mylar sleeve; spine has minor edgewear but boards are very clean; small bookshop sticker to back pastedown; leaves are toned but unmarked, tight binding. . Hardcover.

Episodic chapters about the Birdwell family, nineteenth century Quakers living in Indiana during the period following the Civil War. The author "is of Indiana Quaker stock, and she writes of things which echoed through her childhood. Her prose is warm and glowing, keyed to the lovely nostalgia of the scenes.[...] The Friendly Persuasion, her first book, will bring to wide attention the family of the Birdwells, soon, we believe, to be a famous American family."--Jacket. / 1861-1865, États-Unis Histoire 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) Romans, nouvelles, etc, Fiction, Fictional Work, Friends, Society of Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Indiana, Indiana Fiction, Indiana Mœurs et coutumes Romans, nouvelles, etc, Indiana Social life and customs Fiction, Manners and customs, Nouvelles, Quakers, Quakers Fiction, Quakers Romans, nouvelles, etc, Romans, Short stories, United States, United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction, short stories