Jack Racer.

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901 First edition. Rare in commerce, especially in dust jacket. Jack Racer follows the titular character, an Illinois lawyer who runs for political office. Jack is also a ladies-man and the novel chronicles his flirtations. His political success is halted when his romantic relationships become suspect. According to a contemporary review from the Los Angeles Evening Press, the novel contains "clever character sketches" and "is tainted with so ambitious a root of aspiration as politics. Publisher's tan dust jacket with title in red. . Octavo. Includes decorations on title page and throughout by Anne Goldthwaite. Minor tear to second leaf near head of spine. Light damp stain to upper margin. Clean throughout. A very, tight good copy. Advertisement for "new fiction," including the present work, laid in. Mary Gay Humphreys (1843-1915) was a journalist and author from Ohio. She also served as a nurse during the Civil War. Her writing was published in periodicals such as Harper's Bazaar and Scribner's Sons. In addition to journalism, she wrote several novels using various pen-names. Under the pseudonym Elinor Gray she co-authored Skillful Susy: A Book of Fairs and Bazars which reviewed household craft-work. Humphreys later published Jack Racer under the name Henry Somerville. The news believed Henry Somerville to be an Ohio-native working in the newspaper business: a biography not far off from Humphrey's own.