The Reign of Law, A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields by selling James Lane Allen (1900) - First Edition

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1900. Illustrated by Harry Fenn and J.C. Earl. First edition (not stated). 385 pp. Hardcover.

The first known book to feature the cannabis plant on the front cover, and the first novel to seriously portray at hemp production in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Around the turn of the 20th selling century, publishers used decorative bindings like this one to both attract potential buyers in store windows and to reflect the popularity of their pages.

Publisher's cloth. Very good, cloth rubbed and lightly soiled.