Cousin Jane

New York: Cosmopolitan, 1925. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling and blocking stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 388pp. Modest rubbing to board edges, with shelf-soil and mild cracks to gutter; Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00), spine-tanned, with light foxing, tiny chips and tears to extremities, 3" closed tear to rear flap fold, and small tape mend to front panel verso; Good.

"Story of how a large California fortune made from mining was lost through stock speculation. The setting is a large mansion in "Union Hill," a mining town in the northern mines of the Sierra Nevda, 1920's" (see Baird, California Fiction, 2649). BAIRD 2649. [84253].