London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1901.. FIRST EDITION THUS. 8vo. (18 x 12 cm). pp. xxxii+286+[2. ads]. Original publisher's binding of gilt-decorated dark green cloth, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece, 47 wood-engraved vignettes after Hugh Thomson Inscription to front free endpaper, 'A.M.S. from S.D.'. Spine slightly cocked, contents clean and crisp. Generally a very good example. First published in 1894, "an idyl of provincial life, a kind of Kentucky Paul and Virginia, a romance in which the traditional hero and heroine move with some of the stateliness and grace of a minuet through a courtship whose tempo and details were considerably slower and daintier than those of a generation or two later... its style, characterized by lightness, slyness of jest, and restraint of emotion" (Knight - James Lane Allen and the Genteel Tradition). The pastoral subject and style is perfectly illustrated by Thomson's delicacy of line.

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Bookseller: Robert Frew Ltd (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 61258
Title: A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath.
Author: ALLEN, James Lane
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1901.

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Robert Frew has been trading in antiquarian books since 1975, starting out from an open market in Camden Lock, followed by shops in Primrose Hill, in Great Russell Street by the British Museum, Maddox Street Mayfair and now on the borders of South Kensington and Knightsbridge. Not to mention stints in Portobello Road and Safe Store Battersea.We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, of which Robert Frew is a past president.We Exhibit at most of the major international ILAB fairs in America, often in Europe and sometimes in the Middle and Far East. We are also members of the PBFA, exhibiting in London and occasionally in the provinces.

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