Doctor Luke Of The Labrador

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good. 1904. Early Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. The spine of thebook has some beginning fading. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. The bottom edge of the text block has a dribble of ink. "From 1897 to 1901 Duncan was on the staff of The New York Evening Post. After 1900, he lived mainly in the United States. In 1902, Duncan was appointed professor of rhetoric at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, a position he held until 1906, when he became adjunct professor of English literature at the University of Kansas. Duncan made several trips to Newfoundland and Labrador, which he then used as a setting for some of his books, including Doctor Luke of the Labrador, a novel featuring a thinly veiled Wilfred Grenfell as its protagonist. From 1907 to 1908 he was correspondent of Harper's Magazine in Syria, Palestine, Arabia and Egypt." (from Wikipedia) .