The Red City: A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington
first edition Hardcover
1908
by Mitchell, S. Weir
The Century Company, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial cloth. 421 pp. Inscribed by Mitchell (to Mrs. Bayard) on the front free endpaper. Light soiling and wear to exterior. Spine slightly cocked. Light toning to page edges. Some dampstaining visible to lower fore-corners. Overall very good, no jacket. Mitchell was a physician, known for discovering causalgia and erythromelalgia (once known as Mitchell's Disease). Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one of his patients and his treatment of her inspired "The Yellow Wallpaper." (Inventory #: 427768)