Publisher:
New York, NY, E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.: 1939
Royal blue cloth with gilt lettering, 9x6 inches, 316 pages, black and white frontispiece photo of Miss Rosita Forbes; faded gilt letting on spine, beveled edge, dust stained on top edge, end papers are slightly age toned, otherwise text is bright and clean, binding is square and tight; spine of dust jacket is sunned, with creasing and edge wear along head and tail. A far-flung travelogue profiling those Rosita Forbes, adventurer extraordinaire, encountered along the way, including, "a Red Sea pirate-the only human being of whom Miss Forbes was ever afraid" and, "the Sumatran ideal...
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