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National Alumni, 1923. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
William Austin, Creator of Peter Rugg, Being a Biographical Sketch of William Austin, Together with the best of His Short Stories by Austin, Walter - 1925
by Austin, Walter
William Austin, Creator of Peter Rugg, Being a Biographical Sketch of William Austin, Together with the best of His Short Stories
by Austin, Walter
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Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1925. First Edition. Octavo. 338 pages, index. One of the first American short stories, the Peter Rugg character deals with the supernatural as well as mystery. Besides the Peter Rugg, the Missing Man story, it also includes The Late Joseph Natterstrom; Martha Gardner, or Moral Reaction and The Man with the Clocks. It is no wonder that Amy Lowell and Louise Imogen Guiney wrote of this early American tale. Bound in dark blue linen lettered and ruled in gilt, spine gilt lettered, top edge gilt. A fine bright copy in two pictorial dust jackets.
- Bookseller Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Marshall Jones Company
- Place of Publication Boston
- Date Published 1925
- Keywords Harvard Graduate (1778), Lawyer; Early American Short Stories;