The Wonderful Cookie and Other Stories

  • Akron, OH: Werner Company, 1899
By [Susan Fenimore Cooper]
Akron, OH: Werner Company, 1899. Good. Akron, OH: Werner Company, 1899. Slim octavo; publisher's cream pictorial cloth stamped in grey, black, and yellow; [30,7(ads)]pp.; four leaves of plates. Cloth rubbed and dust-soiled with significant spotting to sizing; still, Good overall, internally near fine.

"Collection" of two stories for children, the first (though unattributed) by Susan Fenimore Cooper, daughter of James, and the founder of the Orphan House of the Holy Saviour in Cooperstown (see the James Fenimore Cooper Society website). Bound in charming pictorial publisher's cloth, a partly-eaten cookie smiling out at the reader. OCLC locates two copies of this edition as of September, 2020, at Catholic and Indiana State.

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