IMPROBABLE TALES

by Clinton Ross

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1892. Octavo, original decorated blue-gray cloth. First edition. These improbable tales are not ghost, or strictly strange stories, but those that make no realistic pretenses according to Ross. Collects a novella and two short stories, first of latter, The Peace of the Hills, a labor reform story set during a strike in an imaginary New England town in which a young worker

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