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First printing. Novel by this New England author and lawyer set in the "Southern Highlands" - the Cumberland Mountains which run through North Georgia, East Tennessee, North Carolina, and Kentucky. The publisher's foreword states: "It has been the author's purpose in this story to describe life as it really is, to-day, among that strange mountain people which has its habitation geographically so near to our twentieth century civilization, yet is actually so remote therefrom, almost completely isolated within its containing hills. If he has at times seemed to draw a picture of an existence almost incredibly harsh and crude for a part of our own country settled by our forefathers more than a century ago, it is because that crudity and hardness exist - a hundred years have passed over the greater part of that mountain region, so difficult of access, and left almost no perceptible trace of their passage.... Herein "Smiles" ( turns her face again to her beloved mountains to help those others who 'haint never hed no chance' to help themselves.". Illustrated by John Goss with a full color frontispiece and 4 glossy black and white inserted plates. 389 pp plus 10 pp of publisher's advertisments. Near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering and a small oval pastedown of a detail from the frontispiece. Very minor wear to covers. Gift inscription inside front cover "To Janice from Papa, graduation Day, Feb 10, 1922." .

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