THE SPIRIT OF SWEETWATER ..
first edition
1898 · Philadelphia
by Garland, Hamlin
Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. Small octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-100, inserted frontispiece (portrait of Garland), title page printed in red and black, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. A romance set in a frontier mining town in Colorado. A longer version of the story was published in 1906 under it's original magazine title, "Witch's Gold." Wright (III) 2120. Private owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Hairline crack along inner front hinge, but still a very sound, bright, near fine copy. (#112402) (Inventory #: 112402)