THE CASE OF MR. LUCRAFT; AND OTHER TALES

by Walter Besant, James Rice

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876. Octavo, two volumes; pp. i-v vi-viii, 1-3 4-290 291-292: blank ; i-iv , 1-3 4-290 291-292: blank last leaves in both volumes are blanks , rebound in nineteenth-century quarter brown polished calf and marbled boards. First edition. The Case of Mr. Lucraft employs a deal with the devil theme as in Hoffmann's The Sandman and Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl;

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