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Author Name Stockton, Frank R. Title John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Binding Hard Cover Book Condition Very Good Edition First edition Publisher New York Charles Scribners & Sons 1902 Seller ID 2201 Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902), Philadelphia; 19th Century story writer of fantasy and supernatural. This book contains 11 of his stories and 8 plates including frontispiece. Stories: What I Found in the Sea; The Bushwacker Nurse; The Lady in the Box; The Cot and the Rill; The Gilded Idol and the King Conch-shell; My Balloon Hunt; The Foreign Prince and the Hermit's Daughter; The Conscious Amanda; My Translatophone; The Vice-consort; Blackgum ag'in' Thunder. First Edition "Published November 1902." Original green cloth boards, elaborate color sea illustration and gilt lettering to front board, gilt to spine. Upper edge faded 2 inches across, mild rubbing to extremities. Deckled page ends. TEG, front hinge cracked.. Solidly bound in oovers, clean text and illustrations. 365 pp, sm 8 vo. BAL. 18944
John Gayther's Garden first edition, Frank Stockton First Edition Supernatural stories first edition, Strange Tales 1900's, Color Plate Books What I Found in the Sea, The Bushwacker Nurse, The Lady in the Box
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