Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1893.

First edition. The first printing was comprised of just 2000 copies. The volume is dedicated to Jewett’s younger sister, of which she writes: “I have had many pleasures that were doubled because you shared them.” 

A collection of nine short stories which delve into moral and social complexities facing a small New England town.

8vo., green cloth ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt with central floral motif to upper cover; red coated endpapers; [xi], 2-309, [v]; boards rubbed at extremities with a couple of small marks; patches of rubbing to endpapers; with a couple of corner creases and cracking to the gutters of the paste-downs; front quire coming loose; some damp stains throughout, but predominantly affecting p. 6-7 and the gutter of the final few pages; small ink number to upper edge of title; a very good copy, still.