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Item Details
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| Author: |
Bruce, George |
| Title: |
Destiny and Other Poems |
| Place: |
St. Andrews |
| Publisher: |
The Author |
| Date: |
1876 |
| Item # : |
199877 |
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| Sale Number |
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462 |
| Lot Number |
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19 |
| Sale Name |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts including Literature & Americana |
| Sale Date |
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09/08/2011 |
| Price realized |
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$ 120 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| xxvi, 514 pp. Collotype photograph plates, including portrait frontispiece of the author, and portrait of the Old and Young Tom Morris. (8vo), green cloth, lined and lettered in gilt, front cover decoration in black, all edges gilt. Later Edition. |
| The first edition was published in 1865, and this is a later revised edition. Containing beautiful collotype plates including a view of the city of St. Andrews, and the notable portrait of Old and Young Tom Morris that accompanies the poem, "In Memory of Young Tom Morris." Another poem titled "A Piece of Rhyme Upon Golf" may be of interest to the golf collector. |
| Condition: |
| Just a bit of rubbing at spine ends and corners, very light foxing at fore edge of text block and on fore edge of some leaves; else near fine. |
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