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TOD, FRANK [3 items relating to Lionel Terry]
Estimate:
$150 - $200
Sold
$180
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196 Rare Books including The John Mowbray Collection
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TOD, FRANK [3 items relating to Lionel Terry]
1. The Making of a Madman, Lionel Terry.
Dunedin: Otago Foundation Books1977. 221p, frontis, illustrated. Owner's name on endpaper, 220mm, brown cloth, gilt titles, DJ spine faded, chips & edge wear. VG/G.
2. Lionel Terry - The Shadow. Auckland: Wilson & Horton 1904. 30p, 220mm, paper covered booklet, covers, worn and detached.
Prose and verse attack on Chinese immigration.
3. Lionel Terry - God or Mammon ?. [Authors Property] Auckland: Herald [1903] [8]p, paper covers, detached with edge chips and losses.
Verse on the alternatives facing the British Empire.
1905 the New Zealand public was startled by the calculated murder of an elderly Chinese man in Wellington. Joe Kum Yung was killed by Lionel Terry, a young Englishman who wanted to draw attention to his views on alien immigration. Terry's belief in racial segregation and his obsession with what was commonly called the yellow peril drove him to murder and condemned him to nearly half a century in mental hospitals.
1. The Making of a Madman, Lionel Terry.
Dunedin: Otago Foundation Books1977. 221p, frontis, illustrated. Owner's name on endpaper, 220mm, brown cloth, gilt titles, DJ spine faded, chips & edge wear. VG/G.
2. Lionel Terry - The Shadow. Auckland: Wilson & Horton 1904. 30p, 220mm, paper covered booklet, covers, worn and detached.
Prose and verse attack on Chinese immigration.
3. Lionel Terry - God or Mammon ?. [Authors Property] Auckland: Herald [1903] [8]p, paper covers, detached with edge chips and losses.
Verse on the alternatives facing the British Empire.
1905 the New Zealand public was startled by the calculated murder of an elderly Chinese man in Wellington. Joe Kum Yung was killed by Lionel Terry, a young Englishman who wanted to draw attention to his views on alien immigration. Terry's belief in racial segregation and his obsession with what was commonly called the yellow peril drove him to murder and condemned him to nearly half a century in mental hospitals.
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