Author: Janes Lane Allen
Title: A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901. Cloth. The first two novels of A Kentucky Cardinal series by American writer, James Lane Allen. A Kentucky Cardinal was his third novel by Allen, first published in 1894, Aftermath is the second in the series. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. James Lane Allen (1849 - 1925) 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." With William George's and Sons bookseller's label to front pastedown. In a decorative cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light wear to extremities, slight fading to spine and the odd slight mark to boards. Institutional stamp to front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Bright but with occasional slight foxing, heavier to endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Hugh Thomson. Very Good .

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