STEPHEN CRANE (1871- 1900)

Maggie, Stephen Crane's first novel, was printed privately at his own expense under the pseudonym Johnston Smith. Maggie is recognized as the first American example of a technique that would come to be known as stark realism. A non-sentimental tale of slum life in New York City by publishers of religious and medical materials. A second, hard-cover edition, published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1896, was the first edition to acknowledge Crane's authorship on the title page. The copy exhibited is in its original printed yellow wrappers, unopened The original publication price announced on the title page was fifty cents.