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Variant cover and frontispiece.

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Variant cover and frontispiece.

Arena Library, Vol. 1, no. 1.  Paper issue.
[Mislabeled as "no. 1" and misdated "Jan. 1891"]

• New York: Appleton, 1897.  213 pp.

• Jason Edwards and A Little Norsk.  London: W. Thacker, 1898.  306 pp. 

(Courtesy USC)

• The Ariel Library, no. 15.
  Chicago: F. J. Schulte, 1892. 239 pp.
  

Paper issue.  Printed from the same plates but without frontispiece.

• As A Member of the Third House: A Story of Political Warfare.  Rev. ed.
  New York: Appleton, 1897.  239 pp.

(Courtesy William Aisenbrey)

• As A la Troisième chambre.  Trans. Alice Foulon de Vaulx. 
  Paris: Calman-Lévy, 1897.

(Courtesy William Aisenbrey)

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Variant cover and frontispiece.

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Variant cover and frontispiece.

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Arena Library Series, Vol. 2, no. 7.  Paper issue.

• Rev. ed.  New York: Appleton, 1897.  375 pp.

note: with a new preface by HG, pp. vii-viii, dated May 1897.

Contents: "Uncle Ethan's Speculation," "The Test of Elder Pill," "William Bacon's Hired Man," "Sim Burn's Wife," "Saturday Night on the Farm," "Village Cronies," "Drifting Crane," "Old Daddy Deering," "The Sociable at Dudley's."

Note: the book is copyrighted in 1892 but published in 1893.
(Courtesy Paul Brumbaugh)

• The Ariel Library, no. 25.
  Chicago: F. J. Schulte, 1892. 255 pp.
  

Paper issue.  Printed from the same plates.

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• Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895. 255 pp.

• Rev. ed.  New York: Macmillan, 1899. 284 pp.

Contents, stories: "William Bacon's Man," "Elder Pill, Preacher," "A Day of Grace," "Lucretia Burns," "Some Village Cronies," "Drifting Crane," "Daddy Deering," "Black Ephraim," "The Wapseypinnicon Tiger," "Aidgewise Feelin's," "The Sociable at Dudley's"; poems: "Then It's Spring," "April Days," "A Farmer's Wife," "Logan at Peach Tree Creek," "The War of Race," "Paid His Way," "Horses Chawin' Hay," "Across the Picket-Line," "Goin' Back t'morrer," "Growing Old," "An Afterword: Of Winds, Snows, and the Stars."]

variant cover, smooth

Contents: "Prairie Memories," "The West Wind," "Coming Rain on the Prairie," "Massasauga--The Meadow Rattlesnake," "Spring on the Prairie," "A Song of Winds," "Indian Summer," "Color in the Wheat," "The Meadow Lark," "The Rush of the Plains," "Pioneers," "Settlers," "Prairie Fires," "Drought," "At Dusk," "A Winter Brook," "The Voice of the Pines," "Corn Shadows," "The Herald Crane," "Sundown," "In the Autumn Grass," "Dreams of the Grass," "Meadow Memories," "The Whip-Poor-Will's Hour," "A Summer Mood," "Atavism," "In a Lull in the Splendors of Brahms," "The Passing of the Buffalo," "An Apology," "Home from the City," "April Days," "By the River," "A Mountain-Side," "In August," "The Blue Jay," "The Mountains," "My Cabin," "Beneath the Pines," "The Striped Gopher," "The Prairie to the City," "A Human Habitation," "A River Gorge," "Altruism," "Return of the Gulls," "Early May," "The Wind's Notice," "On the Mississippi," "A Brother's Death Search," "Spring Rains," "A Dakota Harvest Field," "The Noonday Plain," "Midnight Snows," "In Stacking Time," "Prairie Chickens," "A Town of the Plain," "In the Gold Country," "Home from the Wild Meadows," "Fighting Fire," "Boyish Sleep," "The Herdsman," "Rushing Eagle," "September," "The Stampede," "Sport," "The Cool Gray Jug," "The Gray Wolf," "Plowing," "A Tribute of Grasses," "Moods of the Plain," "Lost in a Norther," "Ladrone," "Across the Picket Line," "Then It's Spring," "Logan at Peach Tree Creek," "Paid His Way," "Horses Chawin' Hay," "Growing Old," "A Farmer's Wife," "Pom, Pom, Pull-Away," "Goin' Back t' Mother," "On Wing of Steam," "My Prairies," "Midway on the Trail."

Large paper issue, 110 copies, numbered and signed by publishers.  7-5/8 x 5-7/8.

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