Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1896. Blue cloth, gilt top-edge, deckled pages, gilt letters. Spine bumping, hd & ft, corners. P.O.'s bookplate, center of fff. Previous seller's price, in pencil, top corner, same page. No other markings. Spine has darkened from handling. A little separation at the head; back hinge is cracked, still securely bound. 314 pages.
The tales include 16 of which had remained unpublished in book form at the time of Mr. Field's death. An additional 8 tales were taken from "Culture's Garland". Contents: Humin Natur' on the Han'bul 'nd St. Jo., The Mother in Paradise, Mr. and Mrs. Blossom, Death and the Soldier, The 'Jinin' Farms, The Angel and the Flowers, The Child's Letter, The Single Mother, The Two Wives, The Wooing of Miss Woppit, The Talisman, George's Birthday, Sweet-One-Darling and the Dream Fairies, Sweet-One-Darling and the Moon Garden, Samuel Cowles and His Horse Royal, The Werewolf, A MArvelous Invention, The Story of Xanthippe, Baked Beans and Culture, Mlle. Prud'homme's Book, The Demand for Condensed Music, Learning and Literature, "Die Walkure" und der Boomerangellungen, The Works of Sappho.
