The Earth Belongs to the Living, Richard Carlyle, 1936, First Edition — signed 1905 and a noticeable discoloration spot

and a noticeable discoloration spot on the front cover

Period portraits and engravings appear throughout

Condition: Teal-green cloth hardcover with gilt spine lettering

The book includes a frontispiece portrait of Walter Scott at the age of twelve and is written in an accessible narrative style intended to introduce younger audiences to Scott’s life and character

The Earth Belongs to the Living, Richard Carlyle, 1936, First Edition — signed 1905 and a noticeable discoloration spotThe Earth Belongs to the Living is a novel by Richard Carlyle, published by Suttonhouse Ltd. in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco in this First Edition of 1936. A historical novel structured around an imagined posthumous manuscript of Thomas Jefferson, it draws on Jefferson's political philosophy, particularly his conviction that the earth belongs to the living and that no generation can bind the next. Carlyle was a writer of philosophical and