RUTH AND MARIE: A FASCINATING STORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Chicago: American Bible House, [1895]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1] - 363 [364: blank] [365-367: ads] [368-372: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], many illustrations by various artists, original decorated light blue cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold, patterned endpapers. First edition. Published under several imprints, this one agreeing with the deposit copy in the Library of Congress. A reform novel: women's rights, temperance, labor movement, etc. The author, a Michigan native, was an ordained minister who labored in the slums of San Francisco, the setting for much of this story. The title characters are a servant and her mistress. Wright (III) 410. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 194. A light crescent-shaped inch-long rub to spine panel, a bright, very good copy. (#156522).
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