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First Edition. Hard cover, 16mo., pp [6] 144 [2]. In publisher's tan cloth with red/brown decoration. Number 20 in the publisher's "The Unknown Library". CONDITION: Very Good. Some marks and light soiling to covers. Some pages lightly creased.** A fin-de-siecle account of a soul's journey through different lands, reminiscent of Dante's journey with Virgil, and ending in the eternal city "whose every architecture was made of gold". Also reminiscent of Pilgrim's Progress in this regard. Written as a series of interconnected vignettes. **AUTHOR Laura Dearborn was the pen-name of Nina Picton (d. circa 1937), a musician, performer and writer born in New Orleans, who later lived in New York. According to "The Montgomery Advertiser" of Jun 14, 1904, Picton studied in London at the Royal Academy, then was under the tutelage of "Madame Marchesi", a famous operatic voice-coach, whose pupils included the famous Australian diva, Nellie Melba. The Montgomery Advertiser goes on to report that Picton played the part of a singing temple girl, in a lavish Egyptian-themed party in Belle Epoque Paris. In 1903, however, she married and settled down to a life of writing books in Newark, New Jersey. ** REFS: Sargent, Lyman Tower. Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography from 1516 to the Present. University Park, PA: Penn State Libraries Open Publishing, 2016 and continuing. #20688. L. Wright: "American Fiction" Vol III, No. 4238. OCLC 6545113. A very scarce title. [Please see related listing No. 9490].
Ref: SPIRIT 9491
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