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BUCHANAN, Robert "The Earthquake, or Six Days and a Sabbath" [Chatto & Windus, 1885] Signed Letter

BUCHANAN, Robert "The Earthquake, or Six Days and a Sabbath" [Chatto & Windus, 1885] Signed Letter

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"The Earthquake, or Six Days and a Sabbath" by Robert Buchanan [Chatto & Windus, 1885]. First edition. Blue cloth with gilt snake & tree motif and black borders. Single page, handwritten letter from Buchanan to an unknown recipient ("Dear Sir") pasted onto FFEP by its left corner. Marked as December 1st but no year given. Addressed and signed on the rear. Spine face of book a bit darkened and rubbed at head/tail. Front hinge starting. Textblock mostly clean. Good.

If you're unfamiliar with Buchanan, a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist, perhaps this glowing review will sway you:

“Buchanan, in fact, whatever his professions of high moral aims, had a mind which touched nothing it did not contaminate. Low in mind, low in taste, low in breeding, and, as an apostle of morality, evidently insincere; such was Buchanan. ... For Buchanan was not only a hypocrite, but a clumsy hypocrite; and not through any element of honesty, but through sheer stupidity perhaps the most contemptible figure in English literary history.”
                                               From "Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Victorian Romantic" by Oswald Doughty
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