The Island Being the Story of the Fortunes & Vicissitudes & Triumphs of the Island Once Known as Monchonake, Meaning the Island of Death, Now Known as Gardiner's Island...
Payne, Robert
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. F 248 pages, select bibliography; black and white illustrated; with three poems written in pen and signed by the author "R.P." on the blank endpaper; one is "For Mary and Deck Out of this gren island to the sober shores of the white islands of the archipleago..." and on the back, "Atain for Mary and the Wrather Then where alie the golden islands-where In all this flotsam-in all this unrelenting rain..." and a more humorous "Reviewed and granted by the Green Dragon July 20 1960 "By Order- Hereby, now and forever and until the end of time-Until the last blck star has turned into a sorry cinder..."; (from the dustjacket information): "...bit of land that has remained almost unchanged since the time it was inhabited only by Indians... Lion Gardiner took possession of it in 1639 and his descendants still own it...haven for Captain Wiliam Kidd and part of his treasure...a gallery of characters...one of the few families that have ever possessed a private paradise and handed it down intact for more than three hundred years..."; light wear and some darkening to dustjacket; contents in very good condition and especially interesting for the author's poetic contributions. Very Good H (Item ID: 14546)
$150.00
