CAMPBELL, SIR JOHN LOGAN [Association Copy]
Poenamo
Sketches of the Early Days of New Zealand. Romance and Reality of Antipodean Life in the Infancy of a New Colony. William and Norgate 1881. xii, 359p, with fldg map, frontis, with photograph of book & author, laid on verso. Five extra photographs tipped in, two of them notated. and an inscription by Logan Campbell written in 1908 by the author to 'Helene'. 192mm, original black cloth with gilt tile front board and spine, light marks & wear generally a tidy copy.
Inscribed in pencil by Carl Straubel on endpaper 'This is one of the rare copies with pasted in photographs, autographed by the author, also holograph letter'. The letter dated 1908 written from Kilbryde 1908 is in a very shaky hand and difficult to decipher 'Dear Helene. I have extracted from a [? ...] a copy of Poenamo which I send now & I feel happier to know you are in possession - fortunately I had some spare photos ...'
Provenance: Library of Carl Straubel