The Shadowy Third and Other Stories (First Edition)
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First edition · In dust jacket
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Elenore Plaisted Abbott (frontispiece). While this Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist published twenty novels, poetry and literary criticism over her four decades of work, this is the only collection of short stories, (seven in all), that American author, Ellen Glasgow, published during her lifetime. The first four stories are often categorized as ghost stories, while the other three are, respectively, a mystery, an illumination of the grapplings of twentieth century wives who were confronted with their husbands infidelity, and the last, often connected to Edgar Allan Poe s The Fall of the House of Usher where a physician-narrator allows readers to determine the source of Alan Jordan s death in Jordan s End . (Wikipedia). Bound in a deep burgundy-brown cloth, the cover is embossed in gilt lettering and surrounded by a gilt border. The spine is also lettered in gilt. Red and black title page. Frontispiece is a color plate of mother and child with the caption reading I saw her lift her little arms, and I saw the mother stoop and gather her to her bosom . The seven stories include: The Shadowy Third , Dare s Gift , The Past , Whispering Leaves , A Point in Morals , The Difference , and Jordan s End . 291 pp. Dust jacket is a grayish slightly textured paper lettered in black and red, protected by a mylar cover. br br CONDITION: This very good book shows light external wear with sligh
- Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
- Year: 1923
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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