Windyhaugh

New York: Appleton, 1899 First United States edition. Published in London and Edinburgh in 1898. Publisher's pictorial light green cloth with silver and dark blue design and gilt lettering. Octavo. Binding slightly shaken. Some light toning but overall pages are clean. Ink signature of "E.W. Beck" and small numerical library stamp on front free endpaper. A lovely, near-fine, bright copy in a good original dust jacket. The present book tells the story of a young woman, Wilhelmina Galbraith, who grows up alone with her grandmother on a Scottish estate called Windyhaugh. A contemporary advertisement of this book, published in Blackwood's Magazine and reprinted (truncated) in several other D. Appleton books at the time, describes Windyhaugh as a "careful and penetrating analysis of the evolution of a woman's mind" and that "every character is limned with a conscientious care that bespeaks the true artist…Windyhaugh compels admiration for its brilliancy of style." (Inventory #: 16686)