ALLEN, JAMES LANE — Aftermath, Part Second of "a Kentucky Cardinal"

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900. Hardcover. A handsome, compact copy of James Lane Allen's sequel to his "A Kentucky Cardinal." This work and its predecessor tell of the beauty of nature and the simplicity of rural life in Kentucky. Per a review quoted at rear of volume, this story is "The perfect simplicity of all the episodes, the gentleness of spirit, and the old-time courtesy, the poetry of it all, with a gleam of humor on almost every page." --- In full pale green cloth-covered boards decorated with crisscrossed cardinals & leafy branches on gilt diamond, black spine & cover titling on red striped backgrounds; TEG (top edge gilt). Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- An about-Near Fine copy: bright, tightly-bound and lacking damages other than an inked notation on the front free endpaper.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; [6], 188, [6, ads] pages. Near Fine in No Dust Jacket dust jacket .