Author: Mary Stuart Boyd
Title: Our Stolen Summer: The Record of a Roundabout Tour
Description: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1900 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Mary Stuart Boyd's account of her late nineteenth century world travels, illustrated throughout by her husband, who accompanied her. The first edition of this work, illustrated with one-hundred and seventy vignette illustrations from A. S. Boyd, the author's husband.Mary was the author of eight novels and travel narratives, and in this volume discusses her travels in Italy, Australia, Hawaii and North America, and with fourteen chapters dedicated to her travels in New Zealand. With discussions also on ostrich farming, gold mining, and the Maori.With a former owner's inscription to title page head. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to head of title page. Pages bright, with spotting throughout. Very Good . Ill.: A. S. Boyd. Very Good .

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