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[GREEN, Charles Edward]. Lives in a lowland parish.

Edinburgh and Glasgow. John Menzies & Co., 1906. First edition.
8vo. 118pp. With half-title. Original publisher's green morocco-backed green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Light rubbed, spine slightly sunned. Small spot of soiling to verso of half-title, lightly foxed. Presentation copy, inscribed to blank fly-leaf; To / Mr. J. Hamilton Jameson / with kind regards / from the author's wife.'
The scarce first edition Scottish author Charles Edward Green's (1866-1920) first work, a collection of seven fictionalised vignettes of characters living within a rural lowland village at the turn of the twentieth-century, including a minister, horse-dealer and veterinarian.

COPAC records copies at four locations (BL, Cambridge, NLS, and Oxford).
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref: 14500