THE IMPERIALIST. By Mrs. Everard Cotes (Sara Jeannette Duncan)
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
New York: Appleton, 1904. Olive decorated cloth stamped in black, white, red & gilt. [8], 476, [12, ads] pp + 6 illustrations by Lewis Baumer. Spine lightly darkened; yellowing to page edges; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired; damp spot to lower margins of pp 385 to end; else a VG clean, bright and tight copy. Binding design by Amy Richards. Probably her best novel, and the only one set in Canada. The fictional town of Elgin is based on her hometown of Brantford, Ontario. The book didn't sell as well as most of her earlier books and is uncommon today. The US edition preceded the Canadian issue and the UK edition. ; Octavo