By His Own Might  A Romance by Wilhelmine Von Hillern

By His Own Might  A Romance
Wilhelmine Von Hillern
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1881
Copyright 1872
397 pages 

The binding has several breaks but all pages are present and attached. The pages are tanned and have scattered brown age spots and smudges, there are a lot of penciled notations on the front end papers and title page as well as the rear end paper. The top corner of the front end paper is torn off and has a two inch tear. The cover is rubbed and very edge worn and the spine ends are frayed. Fair. Hardcover.

Chapter 1: After a long rain the sun had again appeared, scattering silver and gold with lavish hands over the lake of Zurich, whose dancing waves played with them as a merry girl toys with her jewels. The moist earth eagerly drank in the warm rays, the wet shrubs and grasses glittered, and the dew dripped from the trees. A rent veil of clouds floated around the heaven-aspiring summits of the Alps; one white head after another emerged in the blue distance. Everything was bright and sparkling; no shadow dimmed the orb of day, and yet it was not hot, but cool and pleasant, on the freshly washed earth.....(#12)