Crane, Stephen

MAGGIE: A Girl of the Streets, with an Introduction by Shirley Ann Grau and Gravures from Etchings by Sigmund Abeles

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. This is copy number 1735 of 2000 signed by the artist. Quarto. Original patterned cloth-covered boards over a black leather spine with decorative gilt stamping. A fine copy in the original acetate dust wrapper. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase.

This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. Published in 1893, when the author was just twenty-one, it broke new ground with its vivid characters, its brutal naturalism, and its empathic rendering of the lives of the poor.