FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF MARY SHELLEY'S FALKNER
Falkner. A Novel, by the Author of "Frankenstein," "The Last Man," &c. Complete in One Volume.
New-York: Published by Harper & Brothers No. 82 Cliff-Street, 1837.
Price: $1,250.00
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First American edition, and first one-volume edition (published the same year as the English edition, which was published in three volumes). 321pp. 8vo. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF MARY SHELLEY'S FALKNER. Publisher's brownish-rose embossed cloth with printed paper spine label that is tanned and nicked, spine slightly askew with chipping to foot, early soiling to cloth, with wear at top corner; text is moderately foxed, first few leaves of text have light browning and thin chip at fore-edge margin, else a good to very good copy, with the text generally clean and sound. NCBEL 3:762; Not in Wolff or Sadleir.
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