Lydia Bailey, by Kenneth Roberts, published in Doubleday & Company in New York in 1947. 488 pages.
Navy blue hardcover volume. Ornamentation and lettering on cover and spine. Dustjacket not present.Minor wear and rubbing to cover boards and spine. Sligt staining to page fore-edges (see photos). Yellowing to page color due to age of book. No writing, markings anywhere. Tightly bound. Good to Very good.
The story follows Albion Hamlin, who comes to Boston in 1800 to defend a man accused of violating the Alien and Sedition Act. In a whirlwind of action, Hamlin is jailed, then escapes to Haiti in search of his client’s daughter, Lydia Bailey, with whom he has fallen in love simply by gazing at her portrait.
