Little Foxes

Title: Little Foxes

Author: Crowfield, Christopher [Pseudonym of Harriet Beecher Stowe]

Publication: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.

Description: Presentation copy of Harriet Beecher Stowe's collection of essays and stories about the "little foxes," or bad habits, that ruin a marriage. Inscribed by Stowe on the front free endpaper: "Mrs. [Sarah?] Johnson, with the affectionate remembrances of H.B. Stowe." First American edition. Bound in publisher's full brown cloth over boards, stamped in gilt and blind, with brown endpapers (Binding A in BAL, but with additional gilt lettering within wreath at center). 7.5 x 4.75 inches; 287, [1] pages. From the collection of Arthur Williams Hall (1873–1952) of Massachusetts, bibliophile and manufacturer of laboratory equipment, with his pencil notes on the front free endpaper; thence by descent through three generations. Chipping to head of spine, small label on front pastedown, some discoloration to endpapers, pencil markings in the margins of a few pages, and a sprung gathering. Good+. According to Stowe, the "little foxes" that threaten domestic bliss are: fault-finding, irritability, repression, persistence, intolerance, discourtesy, and exactingness. A rare presentation copy from the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Reference: Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 19441.