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BIG PRICE PAID
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Australian Press Association)
NEW YORK, Bth January
A sum of 23,500 dollars was given by the Rosenbacli Company at a booksale for a second edition of Burns s “Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.”
The chief importance of the book lies in the inscription to “John W. -Mordo, Esquiie,” iu which the author notes that “one honest virtue to which few poets can pretend, I trust I' shall ever claim as mine, that to no man, whatever his station in life or his power to. serve) me, have I ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 9 January 1929, Page 5
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108RARE EDITION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 9 January 1929, Page 5
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