by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon (AKA Sarah Elizabeth Forbush Downs)

New York: Street & Smith Publishers, no date. (Circa 1888)

Early edition.

The Massachusetts woman author started writing stories for newspapers in 1868 and two years later began writing numerous serialized stories for The New York Weekly, which was owned by Street & Smith Publishers.

She was finally recorded as an author, paid for her published novels, and allowed credit under her real name as Mrs. George Sheldon Downs in 1900, after over twenty years of publications.

Elizabeth Downs helped blaze the trail for women authors in America.

This is an adventuresome novel of some mystery, intrigue, and romance.

This lovely decorative binding makes this early printing the most desirable--and the most elusive.

Mild shelf-edge rub-wear, previous owners name, dated 1901 to the inside front cover, publisher binding vertical wrinkle flaw to front paste-down end-paper, else very good in brown linen with bold black embossed titles and with bold black and bright orange embossed flower illustration to the front cover, and with a black embossed rules and orange petaled vignette flower and gilt embossed titles to a lightly rubbed spine top page edges gilt; no dust jacket.

A nicely presentable collectible.

Octavo; 314 pages.

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