Anne hutchinson biography book

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. First Edition (SD). This book, published in 1930, is in excellent condition. You can see the orange covers in the photos. They are very clean. The gilt lettering on the spine is bright. The top page edge is also gilt and it too is very bright. The middle page edge is deckled or rough-cut. So too, to a lesser degree, is the bottom edge. All three page edges are very clean. Surprisingly, the corners and edges of the covers are in excellent condition as well. The spine is only slightly lighter than the front and rear. The book is square and very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The pages are exceptionally clean. In scrolling through, I didn't come upon any soiling at all. I didn't see any conspicuous creasing. There are no markings. No attachments. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. What makes the book rare is the presence of its original dust jacket. You can see it in the first few photos. It's pretty clean. The spine is clearly toned. There is a nick off the top edge of the front cover. All in all, the wear is quite light. The flaps do not have any print other than price ($2.50) which is just off the top edge of the front flap. Neither of the flaps are clipped. The flaps are clean and have only a little bit of toning. I've had the jacket in a fitted protective cover for as long as I've owned the book which goes back a good number of years. From the Introduction: 'It is eminently fitting that a Rhode Islander by origin should now be re-telling the story of Anne Hutchinson. Too late in the day as it may be to expect any new documentary light on the tragic story, it is none too soon to have it told with a feminine sympathy for the subject of it-- sore beset as she was with ills both spiritual and physical. The reported first club-woman of New England receives at the hands of Mrs. Curtis an interpretation at once comprehensive and comprehending. The story of Anne Hutchinson, and all the grimness of its authentic recoverable outlines, here faithfully set forth, is vital and tragic enough itself to provide the responsive reader with spurs to the imagination so sharp as to bring vividly before him the relative advantages of living in New England some three hundred years after its founding.' 'Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) was a Puritan spiritual advisor, religious reformer, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the Boston area and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious community in New England. She was eventually tried and convicted, then banished from the colony with many of her supporters.'.