first edition Hardcover
1863 · New York
by JAMES, Mrs. Edwin
New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1863. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. 243pp. Publisher's catalogue in rear. Textured blue cloth, tarnished gilt-stamped spine title. Dedicated to Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer Lytton. Gutter cracked with front fly glued in, newspaper clippings (on the operations of the debarred English lawyer Edwin James, 1873) glued on rear pastedown, pages lightly age-toned with dark stain near gutters of pages 79-92, some loss on spine ends, a good only copy. Dedicated to Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer Lytton. Scarce. (Inventory #: 406998)