[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: RARE AUSTRALIAN NOVEL

[Norman Kane]

ADAMS, FRANCIS [WILLIAM L.]  A CHILD OF THE AGE. Boston: Roberts Bros.; London: John Lane, 1894.  The scarce first U.S. edition of this autobiographical novel, (being a revision of his "Leicester, an Autobiography", London, 1885.)  Original decorated cloth, very good, in the famous Keynote Series. (Adams "is significant in England as a minor prophet of revolt within the culture of the Nineties. In Australia Adams is more important  ... 'the first Australian missionary' of the 'aesthetic        gospel.' ")   (In Adams we have a rare amalgam of radicalism and aestheticism, with an Australian accent. NOT IN OCLC, which locates only 2 copies - BL & Nat. Library of Scotland - of the 1894 London edition.)  $ 150.00

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