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Boyd, Thomas The Dark Cloud
NY Charles Scribner's Sons 1924 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket Inscribed By Author
267 pp. Light scuffing and soil to dark grey cloth; moderate spine slant. Corners bumped; light to moderate edge rubbing, esp. on spine corners. Binding still strong. Text lightly tanned, no markings except for a large asterisk in pencil on p. 86. Inscribed by author on front endpaper as follows "Dear Paul. I don't know whether you will like this book, but at least it will give you an hour or more of diversion. Your cousin, Thomas Boyd." On a preliminary page opposite the copyright page is a somewhat faded and darkened snapshot of a young Boyd, dated 1925, looking down at a quilted bundle that apparently contains, according to the ink caption, "Baby Jeanne Marie Koeppe" at a farim in or near Boston. Also in the photo, more clearly visible is his 3-year-old daughter Betty Grace. "The Dark Cloud," an adventure tale of a young merchant seaman on the Mississippi River, was Boyd's second novel. His debut novel, praised by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was "Through the Wheat," a bestselling unromantic account of World War I. Boyd later ran for governor of Vermont on the Communist Party ticket before dying in his 30s. A Time reviewer in 1924 observed that Boyd's depiction of life on the Mississippi was not as boisterous or engaging as that of Mark Twain. Boyd's style, he noted, was "as impersonal as the river, and as grave. But, on that unlaughing surface, a boat is reflected, slipping down the river under a moon like a golden poker chip; people on board eating, drinking, fighting, making love -- ladies in lace pantaloons, bad men with aces in their cuffs— -- all dead, long ago." Now mostly forgotten, Boyd was once considered a rising literary of the 1920s, with potential of becoming a Hemingway or a Sinclair Lewis. However, his later work was never as well received as his first novel.
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