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Rare anthology w/R.L. Stevenson's calling card
Rare anthology w/R.L. Stevenson's calling card
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Description
Heading: (Stevenson, Robert Louis)
Author: Falconer, C.M., editor
Title: A New Friendship's Garland - with Robert Louis Stevenson's calling card
Place Published: No place
Publisher:Privately printed
Date Published: 1899
Description:


Unpaginated. Frontispiece portrait of Andrew Lang. Errata slip tipped in at rear.  (8vo) original grey wrappers printed in black. One of 60 copies printed for presentation to the contributors and a few friends.



Very scarce copy of this garland of poems for Scottish poet Andrew Lang. Includes the Stevenson poem, "For Andrew Lang." Also included is an example of Robert Louis Stevenson's carte de visite, this copy with the signature of "Prof. Liversidge, Esq. - Union Club." Archibald Liversidge was an English-born chemist and a co-founder of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Volume with toning and edgewear to wrappers; else near fine. Toning to calling card.
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Rare anthology w/R.L. Stevenson's calling card

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