A Speckled Bird FIRST EDITION

New York: G. W. Dillingham Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4". 426pp, plus three leaves of ads. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine stamped in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with edgewear, fraying to corners, small tears to head and tail of spine, scattered rubbing, and spots of soiling to spine. Lean to spine. Front hinge tender. Pencilled notes to front endpapers. Foxing to pages throughout, else unmarked. A solid first printing of this novel by the Southern writer Augusta Jane Evans (1835 - 1909).