Dupuch Eugene (1 results)

First collected edition, scarce. Dupuch wrote the short stories to portray the Bahamian people's "elastic fibre of character and sense of spiritual freedom without which [their] forefathers would never have survived the miasmal squalor of physical bondage" (p. 6). They were initially serialized in the Nassau Daily Tribune from 1935 to 1936. Eugene Dupuch (1912-1981) was a Bahamian journalist, lawyer, and politician. He was made CBE in 1957 and in 1964 was appointed Queen's Counsel. In his long and varied career, he focussed on establishing the Bahamas as a strong, independent, and democratic nation. We have traced copies in nine institutions worldwide, of which only one is in the UK. Octavo. Additional illustrated title page printed in colour, 5 plates, adverts at end. Original pictorial wrappers. Recipes in pencil manuscript on read endpaper. Spine repaired, occasional shallow chips to extremities, wrappers toned, a little foxed, and soiled around spine, edges foxed extending slightly to contents: a very good copy.…