first edition Hardcover
1872 · Boston
by LAMON, Ward H.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Hardcover. Small 4to. Terra cotta cloth over bevelled boards with gilt lettering. xiv, 547pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Quite minor binding edgewear, else tight and internally fine. Overall a tight, quite nice first edition of a title surprisingly difficult to find in collector's condition. Most often seen in green cloth, the first was also issued in this seldom-seen terra cotta cloth, although no priority has been established. HOWES L46. MONAGHAN 926.
(Inventory #: 50218)