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[OHIO] CUNNINGHAM, Edith Perkins (1873–1961). Owls Nest: A Tribute to Sarah Elliott Perkins, [presentation copy]. [Boston]: Privately printed at the Riverside Press, 1907. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: “For Helen Byrne, with deep affection and admiration from your friend of thirty years, Edith P. Cunningham”. Frontispiece with tissue guard and illustrated with several photogravures, two folding genealogy charts. Original half brown levant over gilt ruled marbled boards, 5 raised bands, compartments ruled and titled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, slipcase (spine gently sunned, slipcase edge worn). A fresh copy. Howes C953. Howes writes that the text is an “account of the Cincinnati home of James H. Perkins, incorporating material on intellectual life in early southern Ohio”.