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ROBERTS, Kenneth L.. Sun Hunting.. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1922.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Adventures and Observations among the Native and Migratory Tribes of Florida. 198 pp. Illustrated from photographs. 8vo, publisher's cloth. Very slight foxing to a few leaves; ery slight use to cloth; near fine. Signed and with a personal inscription by Kenneth Roberts on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Sun Hunting. Bobbs-Merrill Company,, Indianapolis:, 1922.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First State Very good+ in dark green cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine and bold gilt text stamped on the front board. A 12mo measuring 7 1/4" by 5". Without a dust jacket. Signed, warmly inscribed and dated Oct. 17th, 1928 by the author to Helen Bess Finch on the first free end page. 198 pages of text illustrated with black and white photographs. A total of 4,790 copies of this title were sold.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, [10], 198pp. Green cloth, title in black on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Slight lean to text block, faint foxing to endpapers and edges, a very good example. In publisher's dust jacket, $1.50 retail price on front flap, wear to top edge, some sunning to spine, small dampstain to front panel, a very good example. Signed by the author on front free endpaper, "For Amy Lyman Phillips, with the tardy but sincere gratitude of Kenneth L. Roberts, Palm Beach, 1927." Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) wrote historical fiction, winning the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1957 for his novels focusing on early American history. Amy Lyman Phillips, who this book is inscribed to, was a writer and arbiter in the Palm Beach area, writing publicity for the local hotels as well as writing a column in The Palm Beach Post.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.