[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED George Washington Cable LOVERS OF LOUISIANA, 1918, price reduced

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Price reduced to $150 NET

CABLE, George W. LOVERS OF LOUISIANA (TO-DAY). New York: Scribner, 1918. 
First Edition. 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. (#006041)        $200.00

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