The Queen’s Twin and Other Stories.

JEWETT, Sarah Orne.

Item Number: 138147

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899.

First edition of the author’s collection of eight short stories. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt and designed by Sarah Wyman. BAL 10913. In very good condition. From the library of Walter Knight Sturges with his bookplate to the pastedown.

In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Sarah Orne Jewett created startlingly vivd portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of the New England character. Jewett possessed a keen descriptive gift that William Dean Howells called "an uncommon feeling for talk — I hear your people."