KINROSS, ANDREW

My Life and Lays

Invercargill: Printed by John Ward & Co, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Some foxing to endpapers.; iv, 122 pages + portrait frontispiece. Green cloth boards with black lettering and decoration on front board. Page dimensions: 181 x 123mm. Pages 1-62 are the Life of Andrew Kinross. Pages 63-122 are the Lays. "I think that no volume of poetry has been composed so far south, so I have called the work 'Lays of the South'." - page 62. [Invercargill is at the southern end of New Zealand]. New Zealand poetry. Poems include "A Poetic Proposal to a Prosaic Girl"; "To Bracken. After reading 'Musings in Maoriland'"; & "Poem for Highland Society of Southland". ; 12mo. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 12235