A KENTUCKY CARDINAL AND AFTERMATH (LARGE PAPER EDITION)
London, England: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901. Hugh Thomson. Limited Large Paper Edition 1/250 (October, 1901). Hardcover. LARGE PAPER EDITION, 1 of 250 copies. Quarto. (10 1/2 in. x 7 1/4 in.) White cloth over boards, with elaborate gilt vignette to front board with singing cardinals in trees. Smudging and soiling to boards and sigfnificant fading to left side of vignette. Foxing to endpapers. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown ("Isseido"). The two sections number 151 pp. and 132 pp., respectively. Red and black title page. 48 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Deckled edges. Good Plus. Item #88652
James Lane Allen's..." work is characteristic of the late 19th-century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as 'Kentucky's first important novelist'."
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