Our Home Magazine and Mothers' Journal (Volume 40, Number 4, April 1875)

Edge and corner wear; scuffed and scratched; wrapper is lightly stained and soiled; some shelf wear; some light foxing; small splits in the head and tail of the spine of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Very rare and hard-to-find periodical! Tan wrapper with black lettering. 50 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Extremely scarce vintage periodical! "What we Need! To make our Magazine the power it should be, is to put it into many more families. To do this, we must depend upon the old tried friends of the Journal. They have done nobly in the past, for which they have our hearty thanks - but we must still depend upon them, and look to them." Contents include: "Civilization and Nature. / Spring. / Irritability. / Aunt Edith's Reason. / Ministering Voices. / Readings and Thinkings. / A Plea for Prayer. / The Old Seamstress' Note Book. / As we make it. / What of That. / Is it a reproach to be unmarried? / Memory. / tight-Dressing. / Motherhood a Labor of Love. / Fire-Flies. / Jack's Birthday. / Some Swimming Birds. / Signing the Pledge. / Pages for Little People. / A Practical Difficulty. / The Peasant Girl. / Every Day Items. / Notices of Books. / Linsey Woolsey." --- and many more articles and essays of interest. (Volume 40, No. 4, April 1875).…