The Able McLaughlins, Margaret Wilson. Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1977. Limited Edition. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 223 pages. Full green leather with gilt titles to banded spine and gilt illustrated designs front and rear; all edges gilt; light brown silk moire endpapers with matching ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints; printed on archival paper. Illustrated by Dennis Luczak. This famous classic earned Wilson the Pulitzer Prize in 1924. A beautiful copy in mint condition.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, this is a story of pioneer life in Iowa in Civil War time focused on a family of Scotch Covenanters: the McWhees, the McNabs, the McNorkels, the Gillicuddies, the McElhineys, the McDowells, the Whannels, the McTaggerts, the Strutheres, the Stevensons, the McLaughlins and the Sprouls.
