A KENTUCKY CARDINAL and AFTERMATH

London; The Macmillan Company,1900. Decorative hardover, no dj. New edition revised. 100 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. xxxii+276pp+4pp adverts. Top edge gilt, fore-edge deckled. VG conditon. Beautiful bright gilt decoration to cover and spine. Light rubbing/wear to boards/spine. Bookplate on front pastedown; rear pastedown has small piece (less than an inch square) peeled off. Slightly cocked. Scatttered light foxing to endpapers. Interior clean and securely bound. A lovely copy containing two titles, A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath, both by James Allen, "Kentucky's first important novelist", who wrote using the regional vernacular.  Includes a new extended preface by the author. (cfm)