FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. vii, [i], 351, [1]. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board ruled and decorated in black. Leading edge untrimmed. Rubbed, spine sunned, pushing to spine ends, corners bumped and worn, esp. bottom corner of front board. R. C. Hoyer Millar's book label to front pastedown, POI in sepia ink to ffep: "M. Hoyer Millar/ Nov 30th/ 10". Foxed, heaviest at front and rear, gently shaken. A good+ copy of Jacob's scarce short story collection. Violet Jacob (1863-1946) was a poet and author, with deep roots in the Scottish renaissance; n�e Kennedy-Erskine, the family seat was the House of Dun, near Montrose, the setting of much of her fiction. With Songs of Angus (1915) Jacob began writing in Scots, with Hugh MacDiarmid later describing her as "the most considerable of contemporary vernacular poets". Seller Inventory # 2412

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Title: The Fortune-Hunters And other tales

Publisher: John Murray, London

Publication Date: 1910

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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