1903 • The WIND in the ROSE-BUSH, Supernatural • Mary E. Wilkins • FIRST EDITION

Description: The Wind in the Rose-Bush ••• And Other Stories of the Supernatural By Mary E. Wilkins FIRST EDITION 1903 Doubleday, Page & Company. New York, 1903. First Edition, March 1903. Very Good Condition, no Jacket. Tight, Clean, & Unmarked. Size: 5½” x 7¾” tall. 237 pages. Box Shipped. THE WIND IN THE ROSE-BUSH (1903), "Freeman's only supernatural collection, is of greater critical and historical importance than its uniqueness might suggest. It is one of the very few bodies of work that combine domestic realism with supernaturalism, and it has been the founding document of a minor school within supernatural fiction (notably August Derleth and his followers). The individual stories are also excellent." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 163. Barron Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman was a popular writer from around the late 19th Century to the turn of the century. She was an author who wrote naturalist fiction about New England life but she occasionally turned her pen towards the supernatural and composed a number of ghost stories (or strange stories). This rare first edition contains Six classic creepy tales. see contents in above photos. Author Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman gained acclaim in her time as a chronicler of life in rural New England. In this creepy collection of supernatural tales.In April 1926, she became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died in Metuchen and was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Something Old, Something New Something Curious Just for You. Check it out! SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! We Combine Shipping "Books for Every Mind and Every Mood" ________________________________________________________________ Unlike large Book Warehouses that acquire used book donations and ship via 3rd party cut-rate shipping companies. We are a small independent bookseller that purchases our stock from collections and estates. Our stock is handpicked for quality, scarcity, and Interest. We do not ship in quantities that would allow cut-rate shipping, nor do we combine book cost with shipping and call it it free shipping. We keep our prices low, ship promptly

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