CHRISTMAS EVE ON LONESOME AND OTHER STORIES. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Octavo, eight inserted plates with color illustrations by A. I. Keller and others, original pictorial red cloth stamped in white and gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. Six short stories. Fox was one of the most popular American novelists in the 1900s leading up to World War I, part of a group that included Jack London, Gene Stratton Porter, Kate Douglas Wiggin and Harold Bell Wright, a group that generated more than twice as many million-copy-sellers than in the next fifteen-year period (1915-1930). Fox's biggest hit was THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE. BAL 6252 ("presumed" second printing; spine imprint A). Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 F-344. 1904 gift inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. Most of the white enamel decoration perished from the spine panel, else a bright, near fine copy. (#116729).
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