The Rise and Progress of the Kingdoms of Light & Darkness. Or, the Reign of Kings Alpha and Abadon

by Lorenzo D. Blackson

$25,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Philadelphia: J. Nichols, 1867. First edition, first and only printing. 288pp. Bound in publisher's brown pebbled cloth, stamped and ruled in blind, gilt to spine. Complete with frontis portrait, twelve plates. Good with wear to cloth, split to front joint, loss at head of spine, one page gathering out of binding. Light foxing, occasional soiling and sporadic pencil marks to text. An allegorical novel where the struggles

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