A Kentucky Cardinal.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. Hardback. Item #29138
6.7 5" x 4.5". 138pp., plus ads. Gray illustrated cloth, stamped in black, red and gilt, top edge gilt, in dust wrapper. Gift inscription, else fine, bright condition. With a frontis and three other illustrations from drawings. "Allen was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His 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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