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Shelley, Mary:. Lodore. by the Author of Frankenstein.. AD. Wahlen; Franfurt am Main, 1835.
Price: US$1313.25 + shipping
Description: 396 Seiten. Vorsatzpapier fehlt, auf dem Titelblatt mittig ist ein 1x1cm großes Loch, Seiten sind altersgemäß nachgedunkelt, Einband und Schnitt sind berieben, sonst ist das Buch in einem guten Zustand. Abgleich des Titelbildes bitte bei nika-books. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Halbeleder Ausgabe mit Goldprägung
Seller: nika-books, art & crafts GbR, Nordwestuckermark-Fürstenwerder, NWUM, Germany
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Original purple cloth with gilt title at spine, octavo. Novel of a mother and daughter who navigate difficulties after their father (and husband) Lord Lodore is killed in a duel. Nearly Very Good, contemporary previously owner signature at front endpaper, stain to first half of pages at lower inside corner, fading to cloth.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Shelley, Mary. Lodore. Wallis and Newell, New York, 1835.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. (Following the three volume British edition.) Two volumes in one. Bound with The Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat as issued. 228; 219pp. Period half calf and marbled boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. About Very Good. Small stain in upper margin of first 60 pages or so of Lodore. Crease down middle of spine, wear to edges. Some textual foxing and spotting, heaviest at Naval Officer title page and facing last page of Lodore; wrinkling to pages of Naval Officer. Published as part of the Franklin Library series but fortunately, unlike most surviving copies, not an institutional copy. The rare first American appearance of a proto-feminist novel by Mary Shelley (best-known as the author of Frankenstein) also known as The Beautiful Widow.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.