IN SIMPKINSVILLE: CHARACTER TALES

by Ruth McEnery Stuart

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1897. Octavo, original pictorial tan cloth. First edition. A novelette and six short stories by a popular American author who did not find favor with subsequent critics. All have rustic settings though in various parts of the country, thus disqualifying the book as regionalistic and dialect writing, and most have a light tone, but The Unlived Life of Little Mary Ellen is

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