The Ruling Passion
Van Dyke, Henry . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1902, Black & white frontispiece with protective tissue. 7 additional black & white illustrations. From the Preface: "If you tell it at length, it is a novel, -- a painting. If you tell it in brief, it is a short story, -- an etching. But the subject is always the same: the unseen, mysterious, ruling passion weaving the stuff of human nature into patterns wherein the soul is imaged and revealed." Book contains 8 short stories. Cover has some edge wear and corner bumps, light soiling around edge, fading, The cover word "Ruling" was spelled RVLING while on the spine it is spelled w/ a "U". Boards by Margaret Armstrong with titles and elaborate gold and green stamping, of leaves and tree patterns on spine and front cover .Media shipping $4.25
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