Lady Baltimore Owen Wister 1906- 2nd print

1906 2nd print

Condition: Good-Pages are tanned but clear.  Slight cracking to hinges with exposed netting; binding loose but book overall presents well. See images please.

Price commensurate to condition.

Wister, an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero. However, his works were not limited to the Western. Lady Baltimore is a novel about aristocratic Southerners in Charleston.

Like Adam- our first conspicuous ancestor- I must begin and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular- being as manlike as most of his sons.' (Excerpt)