THE PRINCE OF INDIA OR WHY CONSTANTINOPLE FELL

by Lew Wallace

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1893. Octavo, two volumes, original pictorial dark blue cloth stamped in red, gold and silver. First edition. First printing without dedication on page iii of volume one. An adventure epic about the Wandering Jew, set mostly in fifteenth century Constantinople, portraying the legendary figure as a champion of ecumenicism. - Robert Eldridge. BAL 20819.

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