THE WIND AND THE RAIN: A BOOK OF CONFESSIONS

by Thomas Burke

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924 . Octavo, pp. 1-10 11-309 310-311: blank , publisher's blue cloth stamped in light blue. First U.S. edition. Fanciful, somewhat autobiographical sketches of the author's youth in London. Burke's father died when his son was a few months old and the family had some years of struggle. Until he was nine, Burke lived with his uncle in the London district of Poplar. He left school

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