by Robert W. Chambers

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1912.

First edition, first printing.

1912 date printed in Roman numerals to the title page, first printing code (1) to the last page of text.

Illustrated with seven lovely pen-and-ink art scene plates, three of which are double-page-spreads, by Charles Dana Gibson, the renowned magazine illustrator and creator of the Gibson Girl.

Robert W. Chambers a prolific author, most well-known for THE KING IN YELLOW, was also an artist who had been a fellow art student with Gibson.

A charming and warm story of a young lady and her family members during a warm spell in winter called blue-bird weather, an ideal time to go duck hunting, which becomes an evocative nature setting for a young man and young lady to sweetly and gently fall in love.

An ideal gift for a wedding or anniversary.

Lower spine end slightly bumped, rubbing to the corner tips and upper and lower spine edges, faint soiling to the covers, else about near fine in polished, ribbed blue cloth with silver embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine; no dust jacket.

Octavo; 141 pages.