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Charles Egbert Craddock in Dust Jacket

MURFREE, MARY NOAILLES.

His Vanished Star. By Charles Egbert Craddock [pseud].

Place and Imprint: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894.
Edition: First edition.
Bibliographical References: BAL 14808, first printing; Wright III, 3888.
Condition: Fine copy in a slightly chipped, but rare example of the original dust jacket.
Book ID: 27747

Physical Description

8vo, original decorated brown cloth, gilt lettering.

Comments

A local color novel set in the moutains of Tennessee by the prolific and popular middle Tennessee author, Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922), who wrote the majority of her work under the pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock. This is a miraculous copy that has from all appearances been in its original printed dust jacket since its original issue, almost as new with no significant wear - albeit a previous owner removed the front free endpaper, apparently to remove a previous inscription and replace it on the front blank with "Mabel Richmond from Aunt Nellie Christmas 1919."

Price: $450.00