New York: Macmillan, 1905. Hardcover first edition - Considered Herrick's best and most powerful novel, this story about Chicago and a young man on the rise was originally published as a serial in 1905 in the Saturday Evening Post. Scenes of the meat -packing industry and a chapter on the trial of the Haymarket Anarchists. Illustrated with many in-text drawings. Bound in mustard-colored cloth with decoration and lettering in red and black. The rather clever cover illustration, by the Decorative Designers, incorporates a pig's snout and dollar signs into the border. Top edge gilt. 351 pages plus 4 pages of advertisements for other Herrick book.

New York: Century, 1903. Hardcover - Novel written in black dialect, the story of Rose Ann, washerwoman, and her husband, 'Napoleon Jackson, the Gentleman of the Plush Rocker.'. Illustrated by Edward Pottbast with a frontispiece and 7 inserted plates in sepia tint. Small format. 132 pp. Attractive art noveau cover design in green and gilt by Lee & Henry Thayer (signed with the intertwined "D" s used by the Decorative Designers.)

New York: The Century Company, 1903. Hardcover first edition - The author's first and only book, a collection of stories, most which had appeared in magazines, featuring her beloved Pa Gladden character, and published less than a month after her death. Although she was born in Ohio, she was the literary editor of The Kentucky, Lexington Courier-Journal at the time of her death. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Jacobs with a tissue guard and seven inserted plates. 338 pp. Attractive binding of navy blue cloth with cream floral decoration and lettering by the Decorative Designers.