BU5 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in tan cloth covered boards with gold lettering and graphics on the front and gold lettering on the spine with minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library stamps, markings, labels, and pocket on the front and back endpapers, title page, and spine plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus the usual library label on the spine plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. A book about Mary Barker, later Mary Barker Eddy, from her birth in 1821 in New Hampshire. The book reveals the New England of the early 1800s and the story of the rebelious pioneer who founded the Christian Science sect. Illustrated with full page black and white photographs by Gordon Noble Converse. Endnotes, bibliography for further reading, indexed, 193p.