A Knight of the Cumberland. Cet article n’est pas disponible.A Knight of the Cumberland

Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. This copy has black and gold lettering and decorations to the front cover and spine of the book. There is some very beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has four full color full page illustrations by F. C. Yohn, including the frontispiece (which still has it's tissue guard in clean, bright condition). There is a previous owner's address label on the front pastedown page. "Though he occasionally wrote for periodicals, after 1904, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (published in 1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (published in 1908) are arguably his most well known and successful works, entering the New York Times top ten list of bestselling novels for 1903, 1904, 1908, and 1909 respectively. In The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the character Devil Judd Tolliver was based on the real life of "Devil John" Wesley Wright, [1] the sheriff of Wise County, Virginia. [2] Many of his works reflected the naturalist style, his childhood in Kentucky's Bluegrass region, and his life among the coal miners of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Many of his novels were historical romances or period dramas set in that region. " (from Wikipedia).…