Author: BARONTI, GERVEZ
Title: UHARNA
Description: Philadelphia, Dorrance, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover . Hardback, 12mo, appx 5 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches (13.5 x 19.5 cm), textured purple paper-covered boards/gilt titling on a black cloth backstrip, 276 pages, Good only/no dj. Respectable enough exterior is generally clean with rather minor wear at the extremities. Front hinge split, writing limited to ffep neat gift inscription to Elinor from Dad & Dad's wisecrack beneath book's dedication to author's "Beloved Eleanor" + rear hinge partially cracked & very small Brentano's New York label lower corner of rear pastedown. From 1927 book review found online; "There is a taint of decadent eroticism in this unabashed chronicle of a fake health healer's life in China." Plus an Afghan intermediary? Desert travel? Cairo & Timbuctoo? Uharnian laws? Personal enlightenment & personal power? Very scarce title. Good.

Keywords: Fiction