first edition
1907 · (Paris, TX
by Dohoney, Ebenezer Lafayette
(Paris, TX: The author, 1907. First edition. 8vo. 312 pp. Portrait frontispiece. Inscribed by the author to his sister on the front endpaper. Not in Howes, Eberstadt, Graff, Decker, or Soliday. OCLC locates nine copies (New York Public, Arkansas, Yale, Library of Congress, North Carolina, Baylor, San Antonio Public, Texas State Library, Texas-Austin). Original printed wrappers (eroded at spine ends and corners). Poor quality paper browned and brittle (Japanese paper repairs to a number of leaves); still a good copy of a scarce book. Dohoney (1832-1919), a native of Adair County, Kentucky, graduated from Columbia College, read law and studied in the law (truncated)