Daviess, Maria Thompson, OVER PARADISE RIDGE, New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1915. 1st ed. green cloth hardcover w/gilt titling to spine and decorative vignette and titling to front board, 12mo (7.3125x4.8125?), Very Good/n.a., 161pp. No dust jacket, very small amount of speckling to rear board, head and tail of spine show minimum wear w/small amount of soiling to head of spine, moderate foxing to frontis and tissue guard only, overall, a VG+. Maria Thompson Daviess was a noted artist and leading feminist firebrand of the early 20th century. She published sixteen novels between 1909 and 1920. This is a 1st edition of one of the best ? quite the distinctive book indeed.