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Published by Louis A. Godey, 1857
Seller: Avenue Victor Hugo Books, Newmarket, NH, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Six individual issues bound in one volume without monthly covers and ads. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, vi + 574 pages with many intertextual black and white illustrations + 6 monthly hand-colored plates, 6 black and white steel plates, three-quarter leather. A good copy overall, cover leather worn through to boards at fore-corner tips, leather back strip rubbed at hinge fold and starting to separate, hinges secure but cracked, internal binding is solid, endpapers lightly foxed, internal pages generally clean and lightly yellowed, but with scattered foxing mostly at the margins and gutters, most tissue guards present.
Published by Louis A. Godey, 1857
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Two Volumes, One Full Year of Twelve Issues, with 11 of 12 color fashion plates. 1/2 black leather over black cloth boards, pink pastedowns and free end papers. Includes Perils of the Overland Route to California; Edgar and Elfrida; The Fortune Hunters (Crowe); Mrs. Peter Dame (Augusta); Jaufry the Knight at the Fair Brunissende (Elwes); Human Wolves--or Lycanthropy; Leonora de Guzman, etc. Good, wear to spine and edges, free end papers detached but present, foxing, one plate partially missing.