Boston: Four Seas Company, 1928.
Price: $1,250.00
Hardcover. First edition. Cloth and decorated papercovered boards, with paper spine label. Cloth scuffed, and corners worn through, a sound, near very good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "For Mary McCowen, There should have been a poem about her curly hair. W. Adolphe Roberts. April 2, 1931." Roberts was a prolific black journalist of West Indian origins, who was later known for his travel books of that region. He wrote the first true detective novel by an African-American, as well as volumes of both travel and poetry. The author's third book, and second volume of poetry, a very uncommon title.
Item #96956
