Loser's Luck Being the Questionable Enterprises of a Yachtsman, a Princess, and Certain Filibusters in Central America

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co.. Very Good+. 1905. 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. Second Printing. This copy has been signed, with a long inscription, by the author, on the front endpaper. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The lettering on the spine of the book has some rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "According to “Who’s Who in America, ” the author, Charles Tenney Jackson, is a Missourian, who has lived the roaring life of the armed camp and is now a newspaper man in San Francisco. We learn from that same book that “The Day of Souls” was in preparation as far back as the fall of 1907, when the biographies for the 1908-9 edition were prepared. This indicates that Mr. Jackson is a somewhat deliberate and careful workman, which fact, in itself, would be sufficient to separate him from the Oppenheims and the McCutcheons, the Chamberses and the Marion Crawfords. Much more convincing evidence of his differentiation is to be found in the story itself, for it is a story with a beginning, a middle and an end; a story with good writing in it and credible personages; a story showing keen observation and clear thought; a story that leads me to venture the prophecy, publicly and in indelible ink, that Mr. Jackson, if he keeps on writing and avoids religiously the snares of a department store success, will one day write a full-length, first-class novel, and maybe more than one." (H. L. Mencken, April 1910: The Archive Historical American Fiction) ; Signed by Author .