Second US printing, first published 1912. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper; "For Leafie Sloan-Orcutt from Gene Stratton-Porter, Christmas 1921". Stratton-Porter was a prolific and highly successful novelist, but is probably equally remembered today as a natural history writer, pioneering environmentalist and nature photographer, chronicling wildlife of her beloved Limberlost Swamp. Later in life she moved to California, and dissatisfied with the film adaptations of her novels founded Gene Stratton-Porter Productions, Inc., one the first studios owned by a woman. The recipient, Elizabeth "Leafie" Sloan-Orcut, was a Los Angeles-based philanthropist, engaged with environmental and women's concerns, who in 1917 was made the city's first female parks commissioner. Books fully inscribed by Stratton-Porter are fairly uncommon, this with a pleasing association.
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