SALOMY JANE ... With Illustrations by Harrison Fisher and Arthur I Keller. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. Octavo, illustrations by Harrison Fisher and Arthur I. Keller, publisher's decorated blue cloth stamped in gold, small pictorial paper label affixed to front panel, top edge stained blue. First separate edition. Reprinted from STORIES IN LIGHT AND SHADOW (1898). Several films were based on this novella, most notably the acclaimed 1914 silent film starring Beatriz Michelena, a rare surviving film from the era, about a spirited Gold Rush girl who helps a mysterious stranger escape vigilantes. A remake followed in 1923, and the story also inspired Paul Armstrong's 1907 play and a 1932 movie, Wild Girl. BAL 7546. See Baird and Greenwood, California Fiction 1119. Lacks the front free endpaper, else a very good copy. (#178354).
Price: $35.00
"Published October 1910" on copyright page.