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WITH A LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR

Poems.

Glasgow, Printed by Aird & Coghill, and sold by John Menzies & Co, 1888.

12mo, pp. 200; a good copy in the publisher’s green cloth, gilt border on front cover, edges slightly rubbed; with an autograph letter, signed, from the author pasted onto the front free endpaper; ownership inscription of the recipient to title-page.

£100

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US $126  €118

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First edition, a presentation copy, of a collection of poems many of which were written ‘before the age of nineteen’. There are a number of sonnets, as well as devotional and nature poetry, some folksongs, and topographical works on e.g. the Isle of Arran.

In the enclosed letter Kelly thanks a ‘Mr Ferguson’ for a previous favour and sends this book by way of a thank you.

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