[AMERICAN FICTION] [BLAKE, John Lauris]

Ramon: the Rover of Cuba. The Personal Narrative of that Celebrated Pirate. Translated from the Original Spanish

Boston: Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, 1829. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Modern plain buckram with gilt spine label; xii,[13]-162pp. Early perforated stamp to title page (Rhode Island Historical Society); scattered foxing and toning to text, still a complete, fresh copy, Good and sound.

An anonymous early work by Blake, identified as such in the catalog of the American Antiquarian Society, which adds the following note: "Later editions, which include additional stories, describe themselves as "By the author of Evenings in Boston." That work, a juvenile reader first published in 1827, has been attributed to John Lauris Blake. Five of its twelve chapters are set in Cuba, where Blake may have traveled during a period of failing health in the 1820s." SABIN 67664.

Price: $300.00

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