first edition
1894 · Boston and New York
by Ballou, Maturin Murray
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,
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