The Leatherwood God: An Account of the Appearance and Pretensions of Joseph C. Dylks in Eastern Ohio in 1828

by R. H. Taneyhill

$125 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Cincinnati, OH : Robert Clarke & Co., 1880. First separate edition following a serialization in a local newspaper and inclusion in an anthology of Cist’s Miscellanies in 1871 . 8vo. 59 pp. Mysterious appearance, and then disappearance, of a messianic figure in Salesville, Guernsey County, Ohio; a source for William Dean Howells’s novel of the same title. Original printed gray wrappers. Very good. Item #70182

• Binding: Wrappers

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