"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
— Abraham Lincoln

London: Collins, 1978. [Fictional biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254; [2], blank. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt to spine and upper, cartographic endpapers in colour, photographic dust-jacket. Discreet gift note to second blank, jacket price clipped with pinking shears else a fine copy in a similar wrapper without any fading to the spine panel (a common defect). A curious historical fiction, subtitled 'Captain Cook's Lost Diary'. Item #61453
Price: £35.00