THE MISSIONARY SHERIFF BEING INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A PLAIN MAN WHO TRIES TO DO HIS DUTY

by Octave Thanet, Alice French

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. Octavo, illustrations by A. B. Frost and Clifford Carleton, original pictorial blue cloth. First edition. Though raised in Massachusetts, the author generally wrote regional fiction set in Arkansas, where her family moved before the Civil War. Her work was typical of the genteel tradition of nineteenth century commercial American fiction. Wright

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