LOVERS OF LOUISIANA (TO-DAY)
New York: Scribner, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. BAL 2385. INSCRIBED to "My dear Mrs. Baker: /Here let you and Louise and Lucy/and me and these lovers, all, join/hands. Ever--/Yours truly" & SIGNED by the author in Northampton in 1919. A desirable copy of Cable's last book inscribed to a friend of his daughter, Lucy. Mrs. Charles Baker's cousin, Everett Wheeler, married Alice Gilman, daughter of Cable's friend and the first president of Johns Hopkins, Daniel Gilman. Front hinge cracked but tight. Spine sunned and a little frayed; fore-edge of cloth discolored and worn. Good copy with fine inscription. Item #006041
Price: $200.00
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