xiv, 190 pp. Illustrated with 9 plates from paintings by A. B. Frost and E. W. Kemble, including a color frontispiece by Kemble, with printed tissue-guard; wood-engraved decorations on margins throughout; decorative endpapers. 8½x5½, gilt-decorated cream-orange cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition.

An American classic of colloquial tales, which frequently verge on the surreal and the grotesque.