The pearl of India

by Maturin Murray Ballou

$40 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin at The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894. First edition, 12mo, pp. ix, 1 , 335, 1 ; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on spine; spine a little dull, else a very good, sound, and clean copy. The pearl of India is Ceylon i.e., Sri Lanka . Ballou 1820-1895 was a writer and publisher in 19th-century Boston. He co-founded Gleason's Pictorial, was the first editor of the Boston Daily Globe, Item #69328

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