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KENTUCKY HEYDAY 1787-1827 - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KENTUCKY'S FOREMOST PORTRAIT PAINTER

KENTUCKY HEYDAY 1787-1827 - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KENTUCKY
KENTUCKY HEYDAY 1787-1827 - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KENTUCKY

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A biographical novel reconstructing characters and events from a fascinating period of American history in telling the story of the artist Matthew Harris Jouett, with photographic plates. The author won the 1500m Gold Medal at the 1912 Olympics and was a highly decorated British Army officer.

8vo. 387pp. Cloth-covered boards. Minor wear to wrapper. Protected by a plastic sleeve. A very good copy. First edition. Signed by the author to flyleaf with a dedication to the antiquarian J. Stevens Cox and a quotation from George de Wilde.

Date
1956
Publisher
New York: Vantage Press
Author
A.N.S. STRODE-JACKSON

£100.00 (Code: 102077)

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