n.p. By the author, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Privately published true first edition of this collection of short stories by this Minnesota-born author, originally published in The American Mercury and The Woman's Home Companion between 1925 and 1931. Includes the author's memorable classic story of Texas oil fields "Windfall" as well as other stories of the gypsy life of the oil boom of the 1920s. Also includes some previously unpublished pieces on a family doll and her grandmother and a biographical introduction by Emerett Sanford Miles. Photograph. xi, 134 pp.