Description:
New York. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1906. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. 21cm, first separate American trade edition, 80p., with 14 colour plate illustrations including frontis by F.H. Townsend, original light grey cloth with colour plate on laid down on the upper cover, gilt spine and cover titles, t.e.g., spine titles slight faded, slightly dust worn, lacks the front free fly, very good condition (hmds). Stewart #304. First (Separate) US edition. A short story that was first published in Scribner's Magazine and included in "Traffic and Discoveries" in 1904. This, the first American edition published as a separate book, has been illustrated by F.H. Townsend, the Art Editor of Punch Magazine.