Country of Pointed Firs, The.
Inscribed to Louisa Adams Beale
Annie Fields’s Younger Sister
Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs. Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1896.
8vo.; two pages of publisher’s ads in the rear; green cloth, stamped in gilt; spine lightly rubbed. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
First edition of Jewett’s critically acclaimed collection of stories set in her seaport town in Maine. Though BAL details the final blank as a second printing issue point, this is indeed a first printing, dating to November 1896; the second printing followed in December. Two pages of publisher’s ads in the rear bear a host of “standard and popular books of fiction” by women. Though Thomas Bailey Aldrich and Edward Bellamy appear on the first page with Jane G. Austin and Helen Dawes Brown, the second page includes Nora Perry, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eliza Orne White, and Helen Choate Prince, along with F.J. Stimson, and Frank R. Stockton.
A presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper to Annie Fields’s younger sister Louisa: To Mrs. Beal / With love from Sarah O. Jewett / 7 November 1896. Like her sister, Louisa Adams Beal was a close friend to Jewett. With the Boylston Adams Beal armorial bookplate to the front pastedown.
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