The Rowan Gibbs Book Collection
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Rock, Gilbert - By Passion Driven: The Story of a Wasted Life
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Lot Details
Rock Gilbert - By Passion Driven: The Story of a Wasted Life. J. Wilkie, Dunedin, 1888. 135pp, small 8vo pictorial wrappers, general wear. Bagnall 4910. One of three “shilling shockers” written by Dunedin lawyer John Alexander Barr (Gilbert Rock), who fled to England in 1889 after misappropriating clients’ funds and died there in 1918.
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