Major Matterson of Kentucky. A novel

First edition, 8vo (approx. 7½" x 5¼"), pp. [5], 8-365, [2] Price-McGill ads, [1]; original pictorial wrappers; very good. Issued as no. 21 in the publisher's Idle Hours Series. Five in OCLC as of 3/16, only Virginia and UCLA in North America. St George Henry Rathborne (1854-1938), who also wrote as Harrison Adams and many other names, was a prolific American author of boys' stories and dime novels. He is believed to have produced over 330 volumes of fiction in the course of a 60 year career. He had a strong proclivity for and obvious skill in producing outdoor adventure stories, and his best works fall within that category . Rathborne wrote under many names, including [get this:] Harrison Adams, Hugh Allen, Oliver Lee Clifton, Duke Duncan, Aleck Forbes, Lieutenant Keene, Marline Manly, Mark Merrick, Marne Miller, Warne Miller, Harry St. George, W. B. Lawson, Dash Dale, Col. Lawrence Leslie, Jack Howard, Ward Edwards, Old Broadbrim, Jack Sharpe, Major Andy Burton, A Private Detective, Alex. Robertson, M.D., Herbert Carter, Gordon Stewart, John Prentice Langley and Col. J.M. Travers" (Wikipedia). …