albert sterner illus (2 resultados)

First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in tan dust jacket; xi,[1],366pp.; frontispiece & 3 plates. Jacket extremities chipped and brittle with some losses, the largest measuring approx. 1x1" at spine foot affecting the "PER" of "HARPER"; additional shallow loss to spine crown; spine quite darkened with some dampstaining; some light foxing throughout textblock, else Near Fine in Good or better jacket.

Autograph Edition. Limited to 972 copies of which this is no. 655. Two volumes; octavo (20.5cm.); original blue gilt-lettered cloth, top edges gilt; [10],291,[1];[6],[293]-562pp.; frontispieces, 14 plates. General light shelf wear, else Very Good or better. Signed by the author on Vol. I colophon page. British author's best-selling novel, loosely based on the life of statesman William Lamb Melbourne and his wife Lady Carolina Lamb.