Author Name: WRIGHT, HAROLD BELL; ILLUSTRATED BY J. ALLEN ST. JOHN.
Title: THE RE-CREATION OF BRIAN KENT.
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Chicago: The Book Supply Company, 1919.
Seller ID: 2157
Wrights 9th novel. Set in the Missouri Ozarks The novel focuses on Brian Kent, a bank clerk who steals money from the Chicago bank where he works to placate his extravagant wife who socializes with members of a degenerate, rich clique. When he discovers her infidelity, he attempts suicide by drowning but is saved by Auntie Sue, an elderly woman who lives in the Ozarks. She is modeled after Wright's real Auntie Sue. Four color plates including frontispiece by J. Allen St. John.
Maroon cloth boards and spine, gilt lettering, lettering faded to spine, spine ends bumped mildly rubbed. Previous owners name to, e.p. Biographical sketch of Wright to rear. Clean text, tightly bound. 8 vo, 353 pages. First Edition
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent First Edition, Harold Bell Wright First Edition, , Ozark Mountains early 20th century, people of the Ozarks, vintage Novels J. Allen St. John color illustrations, color plate novels Infidelity, Rural America, Novels- 1900, Illustrated Novels, First Edition
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