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Emmett Bonlore (inscribed)

Emmett Bonlore (inscribed) - 1891

by Read, Opie

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Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1891 Golden Rod ed. INSCRIBED by author. 371pp. + ads. t.e.g. 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. Authorial inscription is 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]: With the exception of another story 'nameless here for evermore,' this book is my first, and into it I have put myself; and therefore it is full of faults. But I have a fondness for Bonlore. Opie Read." A unique bit of Americana from the Tennessee-born humorist Read (1852-1939). The Kentucky-born actor, poet and novelist Visscher (1842-1924) had published "Blue Grass Ballads, and Other Verses" in 1900 and would publish "A Thrilling and Truthful History of the Pony Express" in 1908. An interesting association copy.
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