[NEALE IMPRINT] [HISTORICAL NOVEL] THE HEART OF KENTUCKY

New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo. (7 1/2" x 5 1/8"); in the publisher's decorative cloth binding; 267 pages; the front hinge is cracked, but this is a reasonably bright copy with no ownership marks or other writing in the book.~~The tale is based on an 1825 murder in Frankfort, Kentucky and its sequel -- the assassination of Colonel Solomon P. Sharp in his home, and the subsequent hanging of Jeroboam O. Beauchamp for the crime (and the suicide of his wife). (Krick 396). Very Good binding.