THE MOTHER
Edition: First Edition
Chicago, New York, and Toronto: Revell, 1905. Octavo, red ribbed cloth decorated in blind and gilt. Decorated endpapers, title page and frontsipiece printed in yellow and black. pp 220, (2) + frontispiece with tissue guard. Decorations by H.E. Fritz. Spine lightly sunned; ink gift inscription (Toronto, 1905) on blank recto of frontispiece; VG otherwise. Watters p. 280. A novel set in the slums of Manhattan (Duncan had been a journalist in New York); some religious content, includes Mr Poddle, the Dog-Faced man from a carnival, who is dying in the tenement. ; Octavo