Justo Ucundono, prince of Japan

by Philalethes, John E. Blox

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Baltimore: John Murphy & Co, 1854. First edition, 12mo, pp. i-xi, 25 -343, 1 ; original brown cloth, gilt decorated spine; inscribed by Blox to Rev. Nicholas Steinbacker on free endpaper; spine chipped at extremities and cloth partially cracked along the joints; one leaf with a two-inch closed tear no loss ; good and sound. Blox was an American Catholic priest with no experience in Japan. His novel is a didactic fantasy in which a Japanese prince by

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