Hamlin Garland's Books.
Uniform edition.
Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.25.
Wayside Courtships.
Jason Edwards.
A Spoil of Office.
A Member of the Third House.
A Little Norsk. 16mo. 50 cents.
D. APPLETON & COMPANY, NEW YORK.
A SPOIL OF OFFICE
A Story of the Modern West
By Hamlin Garland
Author of Jason Edwards,
A Member of the Third House,
A Little Norsk, etc.
New and Revised Edition
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New York
D. Appleton and Company
M DCCC XCVII
Copyright, 1897, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1892, by Hamlin Garland
TO
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS,
The foremost historian of our common lives
and the most vital figure in our literature,
I dedicate this study
of the great middle west,
its contemporary life and landscape.
