Sonny's Father by McEnery Stuart, Ruth - 1910

New York: The Century Co, 1910. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No dust jacket.. Jessie Willcox Smith & others. The Century Co., New York, 1910. First edition printed October 1910. Book Condition: Very good with only very minor shelf wear. Pale green boards still bright and clean with just a little colour fade. Previous owner's name inked to ffep with a date of 1913. Top edge gilt still bright. Internally very clean. No dust jacket. Eleven black & white plates on gloss paper with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith, Peter Newell and others. Titles stamped in gold with black & dark green decorations of acorns and oak leaves. Ruth McEnery Stuart (1849-1917) was a very popular American author of short stories and novels, set in the South and using local dialect. This is a sequel to her most famous work "Sonny".