The Spinners' book of fiction
By: by Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, ... [et al.] ; with a dedicatory poem by George Sterling ; collected by the Book Committee of the Spinners' Club ; illustrated by Lillie V. O'Ryan, Maynard Dixon, Albertine Randall Wheelan, Merle Johnson, E. Almond Withrow and Gordon Ross ; initials and decorations by Spencer Wright.
Contributors: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.; Sterling, George, 1869-1926.; Coolbrith, Ina D. 1842?-1928.; O'Ryan, Lillie V., ill.; Dixon, Maynard, 1875-1946, ill.; Wheelan, Albertine Randall, 1863- ill.; Johnson, Merle De Vore, 1874-1935, ill.; Withrow, E. Almond, ill.; Ross, Gordon, ill.; Wright, Spencer, ill.; Nash, J. H.; Tomoyé Press.; Paul Elder and Company.
Publisher: P. Elder and Company
Published: 1907
Place of publication: San Francisco; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Notes: BAL 11999
Verso of t.p.: Published in behalf of the Spinners' Benefit Fund. Ina D. Coolbrith first beneficiary.
"Here ends the Spinners' book of fiction ... by California writers ... illustrated by various Western artists ... The typography designed by J.H. Nash, published by Paul Elder and Company and printed for them at the Tomoye Press New York ... "--Colophon.
Frontispiece and plates facing p. 16, 108, 126, 158 and 212.
Table of contents: title: Concha Argüello, Sister Dominica, by Gertrude Atherton; title: The ford of Crèvecour, by Mary Austin; title: A Californian, by Geraldine Bonner; title: Gideon's knock, by Mary Halleck Foote; title: A yellow man and a white, by Eleanor Gates; title: The judgment of man, by James Hopper; title: The league of the old men, by Jack London; title: Down the flume with the sneath piano, by Bailey Millard; title: The contumacy of Sarah L. Walker, by Miriam Michelson; title: Breaking through, by W.C. Morrow; title: A lost story, by Frank Norris; title: Hantu, by, Henry Milner Rideout; title: Miss Juno, by Charles Warren Stoddard; title: A little savage gentleman, by Isabel Strong; title: Love and advertising, by Richard Walton Tully; title: The Tewana, by Herman Whitaker.