Rare 1919 Book-Lawyer on Two Continents - We have just acquired a rare book describing a fascinating story. It is a story of a British lawyer, practicing in London, who at the age of 40 moved to Oregon in 1877. The book is: A Lawyer's Life on Two Continents by Wallis Nash. Published in 1919 in Boston by The Gorham Press/ Richard G. Badger. It is a First Edition. Very Good condition. Green cloth hard back with paper label on spine and embossed decoration on front. It bears the prior owner's name (Robt Weil) on inside front cover. No other writing, one page has a corner tear, no other tears, minor edgewear. The outer cover is lightly soiled, pages uncut. Internally there is some light foxing on the photos, endpapers mildly age-toned. 212pp; INDEX; illustrated with b&w photos and prints; frontispiece of Yaquina Bay, Oregon. The author lived in England where he knew Charles Darwin, (nice photo of Darwin in this book) among other famous people, and also lived for 35 years in Oregon. Here is what we found from a Google search on Nash: Wallis Nash operated an English law office with Judah Benjamin, the fugitive slaver, when a convict calling himself 'Colonel' Thomas Edgarton Hogg walked into Wallis Nash's English law office with a proposal: Hogg would pay Nash to come to Oregon and return to England, pretending to be a tourist who had somehow stumbled upon a golden investment opportunity in a remote little Oregon town. The 'investment opportunity' was Hogg's railroad scam. Nash was a man of few principles and made his trip and wrote his tract, actually a book intended to appear like the travel journals popular in his day.For more intriguing history about Nash and this rare book CLICK on http://www.corvalliscommunitypages.com/Americas/US/USNotOregon/wallis_nashbio.htm The book is separated into two parts: Life in the Old World and Life in the New World and covers: London Notabilities; Death of Edwin Wilkins Field; Sketch of Charles Darwin; The Invention of the Telephone; Life in Oregon; The Oregon Pacific Fails; The Oregon Agriculture College and The Great War etc. An overall nice copy of this rare book. 1919 Book--Lawyer on Two Continents Item #N456 - $85 |