Boards lightly soiled. 1891 Hard Cover. vi, 530, [4] pp. 16mo.The author's revised edition, complete in one volume. Cream cloth spine over mint cloth boards, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations, floral endpapers. Engraved title page by Copeland, frontispiece by Frank T. Merrill. A collection of short stories by the author of Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, etc. Includes: STRANGE STORIES BY A NERVOUS GENTLEMAN: The Great Unknown; The Hunting-Dinner; The Adventure of My Uncle; The Adventure of My Aunt; The Bold Dragoon, or The Adventure of My Grandfather; The Adventure of the German Student; The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture; The Adventure of the Mysterious Stranger; The Story of the Young Italian; BUCKTHORNE AND HIS FRIENDS: Literary Life; A Literary Dinner; The Club of Queer Fellows; The Poor-Devil Author; Notoriety; A Practical Philosopher; Buckthorne, or the Young Man of Great Expectations; Grave Reflections of a Disappointed Man; The Booby Squire; The Strolling Manager; THE ITALIAN BANDITTI: The Inn at Terracina; The Adventure of the Little Antiquary; The Belated Travellers; The Adventure of the Popkins Family; The Painter's Adventure; The Story of the Bandit Chieftain; The Story of the Young Robber; The Adventure of the Englishman; THE MONEY-DIGGERS: Hell-Gate; Kidd the Pirate; The Devil and Tom Walker; Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams; The Adventure of the Black Fisherman.