The Stillwater tragedy
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880. Hardcover. 324p., first edition, boards lightly edgeworn, corners bumped, pages lightly toned, bookplate of the book collector Philip Greely Brown on front pastedown endpaper, else very good first edition. *BAL 307. Wright III 54.
"When the workers at Slocum's Marble Yard strike for a twenty-five cent weekly raise, the hero, Richard Shackford, wages a clever, resourceful and determined fight against Torrini and Durgin, the malicious strike leaders. Durgin is revealed as the murderer of Richard's cousin and Richard marries his boss's daughter and becomes a partner in the firm." *Blake 212.
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