SCROGGINS. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. Octavo, four inserted plates with illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, other illustrations in the text by Birch, original pictorial tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in light blue, lavender, black and gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. Sentimental story of an old man, a stage coach driver who gets rich on a mining stock investment and, after traveling about the country, returns to the town he lived in as a boy. A pretty little book, with vignettes in green occupying the bottom third of each page. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 L-394. A touch of darkening to the spine cloth, else a bright, near fine copy. (#116528).
Price: $25.00
"Published November" on copyright page.