Dominic, Randolph and William Barry. (Incribed by author), — Pyrrhus Venture.

Boston, Little Brown, (1983). 1st edition ss. VG in VG DJ. An epic as bold and insightful as its world hero. Venture recounts his life for his infant grandson unfolding a rousing. tale of love and betrayal. Voyaging home to Portland, Maine, after a brutally revealing adventure on the west coast of Africa in 1816. An orphan on the Weset Indian Island of Saint Kitts Pyrrhus is taken into the household of the eccentric philosopher Tiberius Fitzgore who helps to shape his life. When the nephew conspires to have Pyrrhus killed to safeguard his inheritance, the assassins reap a double profit by selling him into servitude instead. Inscribed by author to Jack Barnes, Maine author from Hiram, Maine - "To Jack, Fellow Writer, Bill Barry." Slight edge wear to dj.