Price: NZ$135.00
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
Fading to covers. Split to gutter between front free endpaper and title leaf, with adhesive tape stain. ; Uncommon. The author's first book. This copy inscribed and signed by the author on the front fre endpaper: "R. Caldwell Esq. with E. Tregear's compts." 21, [3 (blank)] pages. Limp cloth covers with faded title on front cover. Page dimensions: 167 x 103mm. Parables about animals, representing humans, each with 1 line Moral. For example the moral of the Cuttle-Fish parable is "Journalistic gold doesn't glitter, - much". Includes parables about some Australian and New Zealand animals, e.g. kangaroo, morepork, moa, kiwi, emu. "A Bee, who held a Ministerial portoflio in his own hive, felt tired of gathering honey, so went into a house and sat down on a baby [. . .] Moral: Political delays are dangerous." [Reference: Bagnall 5612]
Title: Southern Parables
Categories: Other,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: New Plymouth, Thomas Avery: 1884
Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
Seller ID: 21721
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