2 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman first editions are documented on this shelf, from A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891) to Pembroke (1894). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Mary E. Wilkins Freeman title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- A New England Nun and Other Stories — 1891 · Harper & BrothersFirst edition octavo collating i-iii,iv,1-468,469-476 (publisher's advertisements), with flyleaves front and rear. Bound in pictorial blue cloth, the front panel stamped in white, black, and gold, the spine panel stamped in gold. The collection gathers twenty-four stories, including the title story and 'The Revolt of Mother,' and drew a substantial unsigned review in the Atlantic Monthly of June 1891 that helped….
- Pembroke — 1894 · Harper & BrothersFreeman's second novel, first edition collating (6),330,(2 pages of ads), with fifteen illustrations including a frontispiece. Bound in yellow (or decorative beige) cloth stamped in gold; measures roughly 6 the printed price by 5 by 1 the printed price inches. Praised on first appearance by contemporaries including Kate Chopin, who called it 'the most profound, the most powerful piece of fiction of its kind that….
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