HIGHROADS OF PERIL ..
signed first edition
1926 · Boston
by Bill, Alfred H[oyt]
Boston: Little, 1926. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-3] 4-322 [323-324: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], four inserted plates, original yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Bill to the "Hall boys" (presumably, the sons of Walter Phelps Hall, to whom Bill dedicated his 1948 novel THE RING OF DANGER: A TALE OF ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND). Historical novel set in Europe after the French Revolution. Slight spine lean, a clean, near fine copy. (#113026) (Inventory #: 113026)