The Island Of Tranquil Delights : A South Sea Idyl And Others.
by STODDARD, Charles Warren
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About This Item
Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Company, 1904. 8vo, pp. 318. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine. Top edge gilt. Silk bookmark. Very minor rubbing and bumping to corners and spine ends, gilt on spine a little dulled, but still a near fine copy. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION TO FELLOW NOVELIST BURTON KLINE: Burton Kline- with the love of his friend always, Chas. Warren Stoddard 29-Sept-04. Kline [1877-1958] was editor of the Boston Transcript and New York Tribune, and an author in his own right, mostly of short stories. Another instalment of Stoddard's wanderings among (and into) the olive-skinned natives of the South Seas. In this one, published thirty-one years after South-Sea Idyls, Stoddard edges towards candour. In the Story Kane-Aloha he writes: 'It does not matter if in my calmer moments reason cautions me to beware -- my head and my heart don't hitch -- they never did -- and so I have written as I have written in vain if I, for a few moments only, have afforded interest or pleasure to the careful student of the Unnatural History of Civilisation'. A rare association copy.
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- Title
- The Island Of Tranquil Delights : A South Sea Idyl And Others.
- Author
- STODDARD, Charles Warren
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Company, 1904
- Keywords
- Early Gay Literature
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