IMPROBABLE TALES. 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 attempts to assassinate a wealthy mill owner. Wright (III) 4688. Cloth a bit darkened, mainly spine panel, a very good copy. (#115033).

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