His second book - with a lengthy inscription
The black parrot. A tale of the golden Chersonese
New York & London: Century Co., 1923. First edition of the author's second book; 8vo, pp. [10], 3-337, [1]; original pictorial black cloth stamped in yellow and orange; spine a bit faded; a good, sound copy. This copy with a long inscription from the author, "To - the 'Lonely Lady,' Mary Frances Buffum, who, if she shall read the neat volume of my juvenilia, will find her personality pressed into the pages - just as a flower is pressed between the pages of a book ... Meanwhile, may this stir faint (and perhaps poignant) memories of certain days in the brutal, white-hot glare of the Indian Ocean ... Harry Hervey." Item #51318
Price: $300.00
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