A Kentucky Colonel (inscribed)

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1890 Golden Rod ed. INSCRIBED by author. 342pp. t.e.g. olive cloth 12mo w/gilt decorations: ex lib. copy; white ink Dewey "Read" on spine; no other external markings; text is age browned; hinges are cracked but firm; else a nice complete & tight copy with the author's revelatory inscription on a small sheet of Press Club of Chicago stationery that has been tipped down to the front pastedown: "My Dear Visscher [William Lightfoot Visscher]: The Colonel, thus far, is my most successful book, and I like it, not on account of its success, but because it is close to the soil. To write it was a delight. Opie Read." A bit of Americana from the Tennessee-born humorist Opie Read (1852-1939). The Kentucky-born actor, poet and novelist Visscher (1842-1924) had published A Song of the South; and Other Poems in 1886 and would publish A Thrilling and Truthful History of the Pony Express in 1908. An interesting association copy. N° de ref. del artículo 4235

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