The Ivory Graves. A Novel. DUFF (Sir Hector Livingston).

THE AUTHOR'S COPY OF THE AMERICAN EDITION

First US Edition. 8vo. [194 x 130 x 32 mm]. viii, [ii], 295 pp. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth, the front cover and spine lettered in yellow with elephant tusks.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.

Also published in London by Thomas Nelson in 1926. There is some foxing around the edges, encroaching into the margins of a few pages. A good copy, which happened to belong to the author, with his ink inscription "Hector Duff. (His American copy)".

The story of Daunt Tremenere, a stalwart young Englishman, who on succeeding to the estate found it had been ruined by his father. Being of an adventurous spirit, he set off for Africa to recoup his fortunes.

"Sir Hector Livingston Duff has travelled all over the world, but his chief work has been in Africa, where in 1918-19 he was Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Nyasaland. He has seen much of war, without being a professional soldier; is a barrister of the Inner Temple who has never practised law, a hunter who has followed big game in all parts of the world, and a man whose memories of English society date back to Victorian times". He retired to Bath, where he died in 1954, and his house in Lansdown Crescent and books were bought by the Clarks.

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