The White Plume

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Margetson, W.H. First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). No jacket. Lettering on spine rubbed, spine head bumped, rear endpapers foxed. 1906 Hard Cover. 346 pp. Frontispiece and plates by W.H. Margetson. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Samuel Rutherford Crockett, original name Samuel Crockett, (born Sept. 24, 1859, Little Duchrae, near New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scot.—died April 16, 1914, Tarascon, near Avignon, Fr.), Scottish novelist and a leader of the Kailyard (kitchen garden) school (q.v.) of writers who depicted Scottish rural life in a sentimental fashion. After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1879 and studying for the ministry at New Colly, Edinburgh, in 1886 he became minister of Penicuik, Midlothian. With the success of the novels The Stickit Minister (1893) and The Lilac Sunbonnet (1894), he abandoned the ministry for writing, following the vogue for novels in Scots dialect set by James M. Barrie. Crockett published more than 40 books, mainly novels. - Britannica