Published by Mills, Dick & Co., Dunedin, 1869
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 3/4" chip to corner of front wrapper. Moderate foxing and creasing to wrappers. No signatures. ; (33)-48 pages [i.e. 16 pages in total]. Printed pink paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 208 x 135mm. "Reader, - I am anxious to spread before you Leaves from the Book of Life for the past memorable year. The tide of Iniquity is getting too strong for me to stem it alone much longer. Rogues and Traitors, Thieves and Liars, Jugglers and Gamblers, Foxes and Apes, Snakes and Reptiles, Tinkling Bells and Cymbals, on each wide surround us, while 'vile men are exalted!'" - from the Prologue. "Printed for the Proprietor, Mr. J. G. S. Grant, by Mills, Dick & Co., at their Registered Printing Office, Stafford street, Dunedin." - page 48. Grant was the first Rector of the High School of Otago, a "Scottish born and educated eccentric" - Bagnall. ; 8vo.