Niles, Blair

Strange Brother

New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2264520

First edition. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly soiled, pencil name and note on front endpaper.

341, [3] pp. 8vo. A novel with homosexual themes, set in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance. Blair Niles was the pen name of Mary Blair Rice, whose Condemned to Devil's Island (a biography of an inmate) led to widespread prison reform. She was the first wife of oceanographer William Beebe, and a founding member of the Society of Women Geographers.

Price: $250.00