[Rarebooks] FS: Daisy, Daisy, Give me your Answer, Do / Daisy's copy of Stevenson's CATRIONA.

[Michael John Thompson]

"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do"


Offering today: Daisy's copy of Stevenson's CATRIONA

STEVENSON, Robert Louis. CATRIONA. A Sequel to 
"Kidnapped", Being Memoirs of the Further 
Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad. 
London: Cassell and Company Limited. 1893. First 
Edition, First Printing. First edition. Issued 
simultaneously in the US under the title "David 
Balfour". Octavo, original dark blue cloth 
stamped titled and bordered in gilt on spine 
panel, floral endpapers. 371 pp + [18] pp 
publishers ads at rear, dated 8.93. Heraldic 
bookplate of Francis Evelyn, Countess of Warwick 
on inner front cover. Mild cracking to the inner 
joints at both endpapers (common with this book], 
mild foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves 
otherwise a fine, bright copy. ¶ The sequel to 
'Kidnapped', and a great adventure novel. Frances 
Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick (10 
December 1861 - 26 July 1938) was a society 
beauty, and mistress to King Edward VII. She was 
the inspiration for the popular music hall song 
"Daisy, Daisy" (also known as "Daisey Bell"). Her 
bookplate is embellished with a crown, two swans, 
her coat of arms and two rows of Daisies.

As an aside, DAISY, DAISY was the first song ever 
"sung" by a computer, an IBM 704 in 1961. it was 
also the song sung by the computer HAL 9000 as 
they disconected his cicuits in the 1968 Stanley 
Kubrick film 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY; the Author, 
Arthur C. Clarke, had seen the 1961 demonstration.

Priced at $350; ON SALE at $125.00, post extra.

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