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Inscribed by Cable

 

CABLE, GEORGE W. Bonaventure. A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. 8vo. 314 pp. Orig. cloth. Very good ex-lib. copy. $225.00

 

Wright III, 866 (1888 edition). With a fine ink presentation inscription from Cable to "Mr. Edward J. Canning/ my mentor and guide in the courtship of Flora....Mayday 1901." Canning was the head-gardener at Smith College in Northampton, Mass.