The Adventures of Louis Blake
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company [1914?], 1914. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : pp. [iv] 307 [9] (blank) : original green illustrated boards. Near Fine. Item #6373
Partly autobiographical novel set in the South Seas and regarded the best of his novels; "...a rattling account of what a young man of energy and alertness might accomplish in the wide Pacific before the days of steam" (A. Gove Day, p.132).
First American edition, printed in the U.K. (The first edition was published in 1909 by T. Fisher Unwin).
Price: $100.00
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