Description
Signed first edition of Sun Hunting by Kenneth L. Roberts.
Octavo, [10], 198pp. Green cloth, title in black on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Slight lean to text block, faint foxing to endpapers and edges, a very good example. In publisher’s dust jacket, $1.50 retail price on front flap, wear to top edge, some sunning to spine, small dampstain to front panel, a very good example. Signed by the author on front free endpaper, “For Amy Lyman Phillips, with the tardy but sincere gratitude of Kenneth L. Roberts, Palm Beach, 1927.”
Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) wrote historical fiction, winning the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1957 for his novels focusing on early American history.Amy Lyman Phillips, who this book is inscribed to, was a writer and arbiter in the Palm Beach area, writing publicity for the local hotels as well as writing a column in The Palm Beach Post.
