The Re-Creation of Brian Kent — Harold Bell Wright (1919 First Edition Hardcover)

Harold Bell Wright — the minister-turned-novelist whose *The Shepherd of the Hills* made him one of the best-selling American authors of his day — published *The Re-Creation of Brian Kent* in 1919, and it became another of his beloved Ozarks novels.

It's the story of Brian Kent, a young schoolteacher and aspiring writer whose life collapses around him, and of Auntie Sue — the steadfast Ozarks woman who takes him in and, through patience, work, and faith, helps rebuild him into a new man. A "re-creation" in every sense.

**This edition:** The first edition — The Book Supply Company, Chicago; copyright 1919 by Harold Bell Wright and Elsbery W. Reynolds, "Published August, 1919." Illustrated by J. Allen St. John. Hardcover, no dust jacket.

**This copy:** Deep maroon cloth with the gilt title and border rule still bright. Light scuffing to the boards (visible on the front board, as photographed) and light fray at the spine head; binding sound. The front endpaper is **blank — no inscriptions** — with only a small sticker ghost at the top corner of the front free endpaper. Pages clean.

This is the only copy we have in this condition — our other Brian Kent is a well-worn reading copy. When this one sells, it's gone.