first edition Hardcover
1893 · New York
by WALLACE, Lew
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Two volume set. 502pp, 578pp. Blue cloth gilt titles. Pages age-toned, title page and front fly loose and laid in, hinges cracked, spine ends frayed with rear joint split on volume two, a fair only copy. Wallace was U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), Turkey from 1881 to 1885. (Inventory #: 406600)