(New York: James O'Kane, 1867).

THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, AND A VERY NICE COPY INDEED. Dodge would create an instant classic with HANS BRINKER. THE IRVINGTON STORIES were her first published works, she would be the recognized leader in American juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century.
THE IRVINGTON STORIES were very successful and would lead to her later fame. The work is composed of eight short stories. The first of which, "The Hermit of the Hills" is a Christmas tale. There is also a story of the Civil War and an Indian tale.
The earlier issues of IRVINGTON STORIES are very rare on the market. Item #32581

"Fourth Edition", but actually the fourth printing of the first edition. With frontispiece and three other engraved plates by F. O. C. Darley. Small 8vo, publisher's original plum cloth, the upper cover and spine gilt lettered and decorated. 263pp. A beautifully preserved copy, the text is fresh and clean, a little uniform mellowing to the plates, but no spotting at all, the binding firm and strong with hinges in fine order, the cloth in nice shape and unfaded but with a little expected rubbing and mellowing, the gilt on the spine dulled. In all a very good and attractive copy.