Schreiner, Olive. DREAMS ... Author's Edition. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. Small octavo, pp. [1-13] 14-182 [183-191: ads] [192: blank] [note: two blank leaves or flyleaves at rear], inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of the author), original pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown and gold, rear panel stamped in brown, bottom edge untrimmed, patterned endpapers. Second U.S. edition. Printed from same plates as the T. Fisher Unwin second edition of the same year, preceded by the Unwin 1890 first edition, and by several American piracies in 1890. A collection of short fictional pieces. "Other than her first great novel [THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM], the only literary publication to emerge from the London years was the collection of ethereal allegories, DREAMS (1890)." - Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, pp. 558-559. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Not in Wolff. Cloth worn at spine ends and corners, blind sides of endpapers tanned with offset on adjacent leaves, a good, sound copy. All early editions of this book are uncommon. (#112299)