Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894.

First edition. The second printing of 1894, identical to the first in all other respects. The volume is dedicated to Jewett’s younger sister, of which she writes: “I have had many pleasures that were doubled because you shared them.”

A collection of nine short stories which delve into moral and social complexities facing a small New England town.8vo., green cloth ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt with central floral motif to upper cover; red coated endpapers; [xi], 2-309, [v]; boards a touch stained and pushed at spine tips; front gutter cracked and rubbed, with some loss of endpaper colour; rear hinge cracked but sometime repaired; corner creasing to p’s 297-304; a very good copy.