Rahwedia: A True Romance of the South Seas
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1925. Hardcover. xiii, 213p., illustrated with a single image in color photography set at the frontispiece. Hardbound in ribbed red cloth-covered boards gilt. Top edge dusty, casing mildly cocked, front endsheets bear an inked presentation message datelined year of publication and signed with author's rubberstamp facsimile and (lord love us) his fingerprints. Opposite this message are a nice bookplate, a seller's stamp, and a different seller's penciled notes. A good copy, basically sound, otherwise cleanly and unmarked.
Romance set among the Maori people in New Zealand. C.H. Smith, along with his cousin and business partner Edwin Binney, was the inventor of Crayola crayons.
Cat.No: 297973
Price: $20.00