April 12, 2024
RARE 1941 SIGNED FIRST EDITION BLAIR NILES PSEUDONYM WOMEN AFRICA LIBERIA SCARCE
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RARE 1941 SIGNED FIRST EDITION BLAIR NILES PSEUDONYM WOMEN AFRICA LIBERIA SCARCE Description: OFFERED HERE is a rare signed first edition from 1941, East by Day, by Blair Niles, published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York. 8x5 inches, bound in blue cloth, gilt titles, 330 pages. Signed on the first free endpaper, Autographed for Marion and Walter Beck, on the occasion of a happy dinner party, Blair Niles, January 25, 1941. Very good condition. Set in Liberia and other exotic locales. Blair Niles (1880 - 1959) was an American novelist and travel writer. She was a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers. Blair Niles is a pen name of Mary Blair Rice, adopted from her late second husband's name, Robert Niles, Jr. The first wife of oceanographer William Beebe, Niles also wrote under the name of Mary Blair Beebe. She lived among indigenous peoples in Mexico, South America, and Southeast Asia. In 1923 she published Casual Wanderings in Ecuador. Colombia: Land of Miracles followed in 1924, and Peruvian Pageant in 1937. In these books she linked contemporary culture with the past by exploring history, traditions, and legends. She visited the notorious Devil's Island in 1926 and recorded the life of a prisoner there (Ren� Belbenoit) in her 1928 best selling biography: Condemned to Devil's Island. The international sensation caused
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