A Storyteller's Pack (1st Printing) by Stockton, Frank - 1897

NEW YORK: SCRIBNER's, 1897. First American Edition . Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Peter Newell, W. T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens & E. W. Kemble. From the recent auction of famed collector M. B. Goldstone, with the auction tag tipped in. A handsome near fine copy in blue cloth with gilt and sea green lettering and decorations to the front board and spine. Top edge gilt with uncut fore edge pages. From the golden age of book cover designs. Frontispiece by Peter Newell, with 15 other illustrations by many other illustrators--all protected by the original tissue guards. At the turn of the century, Stockton was one of the most widely published and successful authors of western fiction, This copy has a spectacularly decorated front board with a spine. The back cover is just a bit toned with a century of aging. Otherwise a superb copy, with clean and unmarked interior. A very collectable copy. A group of 11 stories including "The Magic Egg", "The Widow's Cruise", and "Love Before Breakfast".