signed first edition
1896 · Chicago
by Wolf, Emma
Chicago: A. C. McClurge and Company, 1896. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Emma Wolf on the front free endpaper and inscribed "To Professor Abram S. Isaacs with my warm esteem and gratitude for your ever kind encouragement". Bound in publisher's original decorated cloth. Very Good with light lean to binding. Cloth spine-toned, lightly soiled and lightly worn. Front inner hinge stated and rear hinge exposed, pages toned. Wolf was the daughter of Jewish immigrants who settled in the San Francisco Bay area, offering a voice from a different facet of the Jewish experience in America, most commonly associated with Eastern European immigrants to the East Coast. In her novels, Wolf tackled questions of Jewish relationship to and participation in Christian American society and women's changing roles in the era of New Womanhood.
(Inventory #: 140943919)