JOHN PARMELEE'S CURSE
$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey
First edition
New York: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886 . Octavo, pp. 7-9 10-270 271-278: publisher ads note: text complete despite gap in pagination , fly leaves at front and rear, original decorated mustard yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown and gold, floral patterned endpapers. First edition. The title refers to the curse of opium addiction. A small-town bank cashier takes to drugs and drifts to New York
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