A Kentucky Colonel: a Novel / by Opie Read by Opie Percival Read - 2012-01-10

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Chicago: Laird & Lee, 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.