Grey Maiden: The Story Of A Sword Through The Ages

New York: Longmans, Green And Co, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Good. Color Frontispiece, 7 B/W Plates. I, 306 Pp. Blue-Grey Cloth Stamped In Blue. Stated First Edition. The Adventures Of A Sword, From Ancient Egypt To Elizabethan Times. Covers Bright And Clean, No Fading, Rubbed On Top And Bottom Edges. Book Label Of "Library And Book Shop / Adelaide Babbit Hanson / Number 7 Arcade / Redondo Beach, California", Her Ownership Signature At Corner Of Front Pastedown With Her Book Numbers. Later Bookplate Of Bruce Bryan Of The Southwest Museum, With His Ownership Signature On Verso Of Front Free Endpaper. Dust Jacket Priced $2.50, Some Browning To Spine Panel, Wear At Edges, Shallow Losses Along Top And Bottom Edges And At Flap Folds But Not Affecting Lettering Or Design. Per Wikipedia, Arthur Douglas Howden Smith (1887-1945) Was An American Historian And Novelist. Smith Was Born In New York. In 1907, He Joined The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (Vmro) In Sofia. His Experiences He Recounted In 1908 In The Book Fighting The Turk In The Balkans, Describing The Revolutionary Struggle In Macedonia. On Returning To The United States, Smith Became A Reporter For The Newspaper The New York Evening Post. Smith Began Writing By Contributing Fiction To Pulp Magazines; His Main Market Was Adventure. Smith Also Wrote Fiction For Blue Book. Smith's Most Famous Series Were The "Grey Maiden" Stories. This Revolved Around A Cursed Sword Created During The Reign Of Pharaoh Thutmose Iii And Its Subsequent Appearances Through World History. Smith Was A Great Admirer Of Robert Louis Stevenson. In Porto Bello Gold (1924), A Prequel To Treasure Island - Written With The Permission Of Robert Louis Stevenson's Executor, Lloyd Osbourne - Harry Ormerod's Son Robert Goes To Sea In The Company Of Such Famous Pirates As Captain Flint, Long John Silver And Billy Bones And Takes Part In Capturing The Treasure Which Would Be Recovered In Stevenson's Book. Smith Also Wrote A Sequel To Stevenson's Kidnapped, Alan Breck Again. The Ormerod Family Saga Was Continued Further In The Manifest Destiny Where Robert Ormerod's Great-Grandson Takes Part In The Expeditions Of The 19Th Century Adventurer William Walker. Smith Wrote Several Books On American History, Including A Biography Of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic Of American Achievement (1927); Vanderbilt Made One N Of The Great American Fortunes, In Shipping, In Part Through The Highly Lucrative Opium Trade From India To China, And Is Ancestor Of Many Notable Figures In New York Society And The Media.