Riverside Press signed binding. PROSPER MERIMEE'S LETTERS TO AN INCOGNITA WITH RECOLLECTIONS BY LAMARTINE AND GEORGE SAND. EDITED BY RICHARD HENRY STODDARD. Scribner, Armstrong Bric-a-Brac Series III [No. 3-Three].

Merimee, Prosper, 1803-1870. Alphonse de Lamartine, 1790-1869, and George Sand, 1804-1876. Jeanne Francoise Dacquin, 1811-1895. Richard Henry Stoddard, 1825-1903 (editor).

Published by New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company [Scribner, Armstrong & Co.], 1875.

About this Item

[2], i-xvi, 17-350 pages. Hardcover: H 17.5cm x L 12.75cm. Original brown cloth decorated with black and gilt stamping to spine and front board; deep chipping at frayed spine ends, light soiling to boards. Edges toned; some foxing to endpapers strongest at gutters; light toning to interior leaves with scattered light foxing. Binding is firm. Scarce West Point, Mississippi bookseller ink stamp "P.B. Dugan & Co; | Drugs, & Books. | West Point, Miss." at front free endpaper's top right; oval purple ink stamp should probably be contemporary to book's publication as Dr. P.B. Dugan apparently moved on to a banking career in the early 1880s. Bottom left corner of rear pastedown has four-point diamond-shaped black and light brown bindery ticket "Bound at the Riverside Press" which makes this a signed binding for Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Seller Inventory # Z626X-4602

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Riverside Press signed binding. PROSPER MERIMEE'S LETTERS TO AN INCOGNITA WITH RECOLLECTIONS BY LAMARTINE AND GEORGE SAND. EDITED BY RICHARD HENRY STODDARD. Scribner, Armstrong Bric-a-Brac Series III [No. 3-Three].
• Publisher: New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company [Scribner, Armstrong & Co.], 1875.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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