Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1925.

The Mayflower edition, and a comprehensive selection of Jewett’s best work, here edited and arranged with a preface by Willa Cather. They contain some of her most famous writings, including “The Queen’s Twin” and “A Country Road”, as well as “William’s Wedding”, which was left incomplete at the time of the author’s death in 1909.

Of Jewett’s sketches, Willa Cather writes in her introduction that they “are living things caught out in the open, with light and freedom and air-spaces about them. They melt into the land and the life of the land until they are not stories at all, but life itself.” She goes on: “These stories of Miss Jewett’s have much to do with fisher-folk and seaside villages; with juniper pastures and lonely farms, neat gray country houses and delightful, well-seasoned old men and women. That, when one thinks of it in a flash, is New England.”

8vo., 2 vols; original mint green publisher’s cloth embossed with tree design inside border gilt to upper boards; lettered in gilt to backstrip; upper edges yellow; pp. [ix], x-xix, [ii]; 2-306, [ii]; [vii], 2-306; Vol I lightly foxed to fore-edge, with one or two spots extending to page edges; previous owner’s inscriptions erased from front free endpapers; spines a little rubbed and pushed to ends; very good copies, with sticker of Emily Mundy’s Bookshop, New York, to gutter of both rear paste-downs.