Books published by publisher F. J. Schulte

First edition. Short stories and sketches written by Eugene Field's younger brother, who had previously collaborated with him on a translation of Echoes from the Sabine Farm by the Roman poet Horace, as well as other writitngs. An association copy to the publisher Francis Wilson, signed by Eugene Field on the front free endpaper, to My brother's friend and mine and a shamrock drawn beneath the date, March 17, 1893. With the bookplate of Eugene Field on the front pastedown endpaper. Decorated cover, deckled foredge and gilt topedge. Minor wear to extremities. 257, 3 pages. decorated cloth. small 8vo..

Publisher's pale green cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt on the spine, and gilt, with touches of black and darker green on the front cover -- with sunflower motif, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut and untrimmed -- a handsome nineties decorative cloth binding. A scarce first book by Roswell Martin Field, best remembered as the brother of the poet, columnist (and book collector) Eugene Field. The author and his brother were born in St. Louis, where their father, the elder Roswell Martin Field, is remembered as the lawyer who represented Dred Scott in his unsuccesful suit to win his freedom from slavery (the Supreme Court's infamous denial of Dred Scott's claim was a major cause of the Civil War. Collectors of Eugene Field will recall Roswell Field for his memoir of his recently-deceased brother published in the 1896 "Love-affairs of a Bibliomaniac" and the brothers joint-book: "Echoes from the Sabine Farm. " Stories of Kansas and the midwest.;