Felix Moses: The Beloved Jew of Stringtown on the Pike. Pages from the Life Experiences of a Unique Character, a Man Whose Romantic Record Challenges Imagination [Signed by the Author]

Cincinatti, OH: The Caxton Press, 1930 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. Large 8vo. xxv, 354 pp, ascription, Introductory: Could That Old Clock Speak!, list of b&w illustrations, Part First: I. Introducting Felix Moses; II. The Discourteous Guest; III. His Was No EmptyDream; IV. A Law That Knew Little ofMercy; V. Interlude, etc.to XVII. Part Second: I. For the Blue or the Gray?; II. De Dign or de Weepin' 'Tree Nebbah Fails; III. Doan Yo' See de Spa'ks Fly up Red?; IV. Cupe and tHis Prisner; V. The "Bad Niggah"; VI. On to Bowling Green; etc to XIX. Printed for the Author by Caxton Press: Second Printing, 1930. Limited to 1000 copies and Inscribed by the Author on the recto of the Dedication Page. "John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936) was an American pharmacist influential to the development of pharmacognosy, ethnobotany, economic botany, and herbalism. He also wrote novels set in northern Kentucky.This is the first novel in his Stringtown series. Stringtown was closely based on Lloyd's hometown of Florence, Kentucky. Several of the descriptions of places and events in the book are full of what would now be considered historical details. The description of court day in Burlington is a particularly nice example in which the past comes alive through Lloyd's writing. Stringtown on the Pike was published in 1900, and was an immediate sensation throughout the Greater Cncinnati and Northern Kentucky region." Minute closed tear to top edge spine with lightly rubbed corner tips, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth with circular illustration and gilt lettering to front board, gilt lettering to spine, gilt top text block edge, ribbon page marker, and map on front pastedown..