The Knave of Hearts: A Fairy Story. Signed Copy.

Boston:: Ticknor and Co.,, 1886.. First edition. Rare.. 8vo.. Publishers gilt decorative cloth, spine with slight lean, minor wear/rubbing at spine ends and corners, minor bump at back cover edge, else a beautiful copy. Signed by the author on first blank ÒYrs Truly. Robert GrantÓ. A rare book. In protective mylar. Grant (1852-1940), American novelist, Boston judge and Overseer of Harvard University. "It is a companion to 'The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl,' being the autobiography of a young man who devotes himself to the profession of heart-breaking. The various species of American female flirts are amusingly and clearly sketched by a few light but powerful strokes, and this, together with the simple yet surprisingly successful methods employed to make the girls' acquaintance, to lead them gently on to the brink of the precipice, and then to drop them, instantaneously and utterly, makes the book a veritable 'flirt's vade mecum.'[-Original review from The Argonaut].