The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895.
Illustrated by Illustrated. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #15621
3" spine rear edge tear, cocked, cloth soil, spine darkened, 1/2" spine head tear, quarter of final page of publisher's catalog is missing, tone. Still solid hardcover. ; First of two posthumous collections of Constance Fenimore Woolson's short stories of American travelers in Italy. A well-regarded author of her time, she is often best known due to both her relationship with Henry James in Venice and her 1894 death from either suicide or a fall from her fourth-floor apartment on the Grand Canal. Uncommon collection of six short stories from this American woman author, grand-niece of James Fenimore Cooper and expatriate American after 1879. ; 272, pages.
Price: $49.95