The Poor Gentleman
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.
Price: $125.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Name stamp and attractive bookplate of R. Otto Probst, else fine in very good dustwrapper with a triangular chip on the front panel, and a small chip on the rear panel. Adventure story about a military man confronting a mystery that reveals a diabolical plot against England. Beith was a golfing and boating partner of P.G. Wodehouse, and he dramatized two of Wodehouse's novels. Not in *Hubin.*.
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John Hay
birth name: John Milton Hay
born: 10/8/1838
died: 7/1/1905
Biography
U.S. Secretary of State and author of both fiction and historical works. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore