South Australian Icon - Signed John Lewis Autobiography, 'Fought and Won'
Pub. W.K. Thomas & Co. at the Register office, Adelaide, 1922. 242pp. + 24 photogravure illustrations and a folding map of Lewis' 1870s route from Melbourne to Port Essington.
Born in 1844, Lewis had a huge influence on the commercial and civic life of South Australia and for his last 25 years an MLA, dying a year after the publication of this autobiographical volume. Lewis gift inscription to A.J. Saunders to first title page. Newspaper clipping pasted verso.
Purple cloth boards are spotted and a little wear, spine sunned. Toned preliminaries. Contents quite clean and straight, binding good. (23x15cm)

Estimate $100-200