Red of Surley
Publication: New York: Harper and Brothers, 1919. First Edition.
Notes: A novel about a striving red-haired son of a Long Island fisherman who struggles to find a better life than his parents. Robbins is best known for his supernatural novels.
[2:blank], [8], 334 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with "Published May, 1919" on the copyright page, with the code B-T, indicating that this copy was printed in February 1919). Very good; lacking the dust jacket.
This copy belonged to the collector James Strand and has his posthumous bookplate on the front pastedown. Strand's collection was mostly stolen after his death; this is among the few books that were not stolen.
Item No: #365729
Price: $200