Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Very Good. Item #33560
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Revised Edition, Second State with title page printed entirely in capital letters. Octavo (19cm); publisher's tan cloth with black red and gilt lettering and decoration; vi,158pp + advertisements. A touch of wear to edges; mild soiling to cloth; spine a bit darkened. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else unmarked. Binding sound. Very Good.
Originally published under pseudonym in 1893, Crane's story follows Maggie as she is driven to sex work and poverty following a failed relationship. Crane's contemporary Hamlin Garland wrote that "His book is the most truthful and unhackneyed study of the slums I have yet read... It gives the dialect of the slums as I have never before seen it written—crisp, direct, terse.... It creates the atmosphere of the jungles, where vice festers and crime passes gloomily by, where outlawed human nature rebels against God and man."
Hamlin Garland quoted in the The News Tribune June 09, 1893; BAL 4075.
Price: $200.00