THE COUNTRY BOY. New York, Chicago, Toronto, London and Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, [1903]. Octavo, fifteen inserted plates plus extra title with illustrations by Griselda Marshall McClure, publisher's pictorial straw cloth stamped in green, blue, black and white, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Connected sketches of rural American life in the 1890s first published in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION and CHICAGO EVENING POST. Forrest Crissey (1864-1943) was a Chicago journalist born in Stockton, NY. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 C-932. Christmas gift inscription in pencil on the front paste-down. Cloth just a bit dusty, a very good copy. (#133311).
Price: $75.00
"September" on copyright page.