Austin, Mary: Mother of Felipe and Other Early Stories

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Austin, Mary : Mother of Felipe and Other Early Stories

The Book Club of California, (San Francisco), 1950

First edition. Cloth backed patterned boards. 400 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Page sides are uncut. From the Introduction: In 1902, Mary Austin was asked by her publisher to write a description of herself. She wrote: "You are to figure to yourself a small, plain, brown woman, with too much hair, always a little sick, and always busy about the fields in a manner, or so they say in the village, as if I should like to see somebody stop me". As described by Charles Lummis, ".a desert woman, competent, rugged, self-reliant and unconventional." Her writings included here are: The Mother of Felipe; The Truscott Luck; Pahawitz-na'an; The Lost Mine of Fisherman's Peak; and The Ford of Crevecoeur.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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