Love Among the Chickens: A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm

New York: The Circle Publishing Company, 1909. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); tan cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; viii,350pp, with frontispiece and five plates of illustrations by Armand Both. Decorative bookplate of Douglas R. Vining to front pastedown, some offsetting to cloth at spine (likely from binders glue), else a fresh, Near Fine copy, lacking the rare dustjacket. Attractive copy of the author's first novel published in the United States, and the only novel to feature recurring character Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. MCILVAINE A7b.