[Rochester, New York: Press of Henry Conolly Co.] / F. Grant Gilmore, (1915).
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Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. 99pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Red cloth gilt. Spine sympathetically rebacked with red cloth, some spotting on the boards, a bit of foxing in the text, a good or better copy. Inscribed by the author: "To Mrs. Kathryn Minor from F. Grant Gilmore. 4/27/'18." Autobiographical novel about a sergeant who serves in the Spanish-American War and comes home to find that his pale-skinned girlfriend, who is "passing," is hesitant to marry him. Three poems by the author are appended to the end of the text of the novel. Reissued a number of times, the first edition is very scarce, especially signed.
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