THE TRIMMED LAMP. And Other Stories of the Four Million.
Frontispiece by Alice Barber Stephens. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1907. Original red cloth.
First Edition of "O. Henry"'s third book, following CABBAGES AND KINGS (1904) and THE FOUR MILLION (1906). Like his preceding volume, these are short stories and vignettes (often ending with "a twist") about the people of New York City; he had settled there among the four million residents in 1902, after his three-year imprisonment in Texas for bank embezzlement.
This is a just-about-fine copy, with no soil or wear, and with only a little of the spine-fading that typically afflicts these red O. Henry volumes; there is slight wrinkling of a fore-corner of the leaves. An uncommon title. Blanck 16273. Provenance: endpaper signature of Harriet Holmes Haslett of Alameda, author of numerous short stories about her native San Francisco in the 1920s. Item #15584
Price: $200.00