STORIES OF A WESTERN TOWN

by Octave Thanet, Alice French

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Octavo, illustrations by A. B. Frost, original decorated tan 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 III 2049. Cloth dusty,

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