Eggleston's first novel, Hoosier School-Master

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Author: Eggleston, Edward
Title: The Hoosier School-Master
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Orange Judd and Company
Date Published: [1871]
Description:

226 pp. With wood-engraved frontispiece & 11 plates included in the pagination; additional illustrations in the text. (8vo) 18.8x11.7 cm (7½x4½"), original gilt decorated terra-cotta cloth, gilt lettering on spine. First Edition.

Eggleston's first novel and an important work of 19th century American fiction. Bookplate of Frederick W. Skiff.

Eggleston's sympathetic and realistic account of the life of a school teacher in rural Indiana was an attempt to bring a slice of Western backwoods life to American readers who, he states in the preface, are over-exposed to the "manners, customs, thoughts and feelings of New England country people." The Hoosier School-Master was immensely popular: within a month over 50 thousand copies were sold, and it was soon translated into Dutch, German, Danish and French
Condition Report: Spine leaning, worn at ends and corners, some cover soiling; about very good.