Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good+
Size: 16mo ; each 138 pages
Publisher: The MacMillan Company, 1901, London and New York
Illustrator: B&W Illustrations

[Book #14722]

A very pleasing two-volume set of this 1901 edition of Allen's novel in Very Good+ condition. Light green cloth with black, red and gilt design and lettering on cover and spine, top edges gilt. Some overall wear and soiling of covers, and period owner name, clean tight copies;

James Allen has been described as Kentucky's first important novelist. This is a 2 volume set of Allen's first commercial success, A Kentucky Cardinal, and its less successful sequel, Aftermath. Set in 1850, it is the story of the romance between a naturalist and a society girl. First published in 1894, this novel established Allen among critics as a serious literary author