A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First edition. Four pp. ads in back. Ads for the Vest-Pocket Series printed in orange on front and back endpapers. 16 mo. Original green cloth covered boards stamped in black. Blind stamped decorative cross of thistles on back cover. A clean tight copy with some rubbing to extremities and mottling to both front and back covers. Tear on bottom corner of frontispiece expertly repaired. A little light soiling to endpapers and first two pp. / in a beautiful custom made clamshell box bound in brown calf. Spine decoratively stamped in gold. Gold decorated inner dentelles. Marbled paper endpapers.
Item #3886
Price: $2,500.00