COOLIDGE, Asenath Carver

The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury

Watertown, NY: Hungerford-Holbrook Company, 1905. First Edition. Octavo (19cm). Pictorial cloth boards, stamped in white on spine and front cover; 244pp; illus. Spine faded to pink (still easily legible); pictorial stamping gently rubbed in a few spots; still a tight, Very Good copy. 4 inserted plates (halftones) by Cassius M. Coolidge.

An obscure bit of anti-pyrotechnical fiction by this prolific (if little-known) Antwerp, New York author, most of whose works appear to have been published by the tiny regional publishing firm of Hungerford & Holbrook. A contemporary reviewer (in The Advocate of Peace, a Quaker journal) praised the book for its "intense feeling on the subject [of pyrotechnics]" and observed of it that the story "...though in Miss Coolidge's usual vein, is, we think, a decided improvement over her former productions." Uncommon; no others in commerce (2014); 16 copies found in OCLC. SMITH C-749.

Price: $200.00

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