Search Results: Flute and Violin and Other Kentucky Tales by James Lane Allen

Harper & Brosthers, 1900-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.1000 7.3000 4.9000. Ex-library copy with usual markings.

David Douglas, 1905. Hardcover. Good. 1905. No Edition Remarks. 233 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Top textblock edge dyed gilt. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.

David Douglas, 1905. Hardcover. Good. 1905. No Edition Remarks. 233 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.

David Douglas, 1892. Leather. Good. in x in x in. Soft tooled leather cover a little curled at the edges but in great shape. Former owner's names on ffep. Otherwise clean. Front hinge slightly starting. Binding otherwise sound.

GB: Macmillan, 1900. Green pictorial cloth. Lettered in gilt. Some nicks to the spine. Cloth. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/No DW.

Harpers, 1895. Early Printing Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Brown gilt decorated cloth, same format as first printing.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1903. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Author has been called "Kentucky's first important novelist". Contains four short stories - "Flute and Violin"; King Solomon of Kentucky"; Two Gentlemen of Kentucky", and, "The White Owl". Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Green coverboards with gilt lettering. Some loss at top of spine and wear at corners. Top edge of text block is gilt. Slight lean to book. Size: 24mo (5" to 6"). 233 pp. Aberfoyle, August 2014

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. Book. NVG. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Book has bumped and worn corners and spine. Gilt lettering and design are complete. First issue with be missing on page 292 and sheet bulk 1 1/16"..

New York: MacMillan Company. 1914. Vintage Copy. Hardcover. Good- in boards. Staining to boards. Damp staining. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and the front cover. Light wear to the extremities. Gift inscription on the front endpaper. Overall in EXCELLENTcondition. James Lane Allen (December 21, 1849 – February 18, 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.". Full Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Salmon cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial stamping. 308pp. Very good. A bit edgeworn and rubbed, with endpapers a tad age toned; pencilled 1891 ownership signature. Tight, decent first edition, first state, of this first book, a collection of a half dozen short stories, by this important Kentucky local color novelist (1849-1925).

Edinburgh, United Kingdom: David Douglas, 1905. American Authors Series. Green bds with all over Black floral Decoration and Bright Gilt titles (fresh and unworn, sl faded to edges, bottom rear cnr sl bruised) Bright Gilt top edge, Brown eps, nice classical vignette to title page, pp 336 with pp 33 catalogue which has 12 wonderful full page engravings (tight and very clean, not foxed or inscribed). Reprint. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Not Issued. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.