The Other Fellow
Cambridge MA: Riverside Press, 1899.
Illustrated by Illustrated. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #16878
Cocked, spine darkened, cover soil, endpapers tone, gift note on front free endpaper, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Limited Edition #234 of 300 copies of F Hopkinson Smith's first short story collection, designed by Bruce Rogers for the Riverside Press. The collection contains eleven short stories of ordinary people experiencing chance or adversity. Jacob Blanck; Bibliography of American Literature; BAL 18229. Frontispiece and seven plates by various artists including the author. Christmas 1899 gift inscription on front free endpaper: Dear Mabel - Page 88 is applicable to what I think about Glen Summit - Sidney Robinson Kennedy - Christmas 1899. The short paragraph about "Dort" on page 88 has a pencil line in its margin: "I sought out Dort years ago because it was untouched by the hurry that makes life miserable, and the shams that make it vulgar, and I go back to it now every year of my life, in spite of other foreign influences."; Special Limited Edition; 218 pages.
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