Lady Baltimore, by Owen Wister, is an extraordinary novel. It wasn't written as a historical novel, but it certainly is one now: a 1905 depiction of the American South at the turn of the twentieth century, on how life would have been so much better if the South hadn't lost the Civil War.
Pages look hand cut? The binding is intact and pages are all good, not torn or ripped or taped.
It does have a light pencil dedication on the first page at the top dated July 1906.
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