DeMille, James

A Comedy of Terrors

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Three quarter dark brown leather over marbled paper covered boards, spoine stamped in gilt. 152 pp. printed in double columns. Wear about the edges of the boards, front gutter split but hinges and binding firm; foxing to the firat few and last few pages and only occasionally elsewhere. Original owner's bookplate front pastedown. Melodrama set in Montreal and Paris involving a threat, a duel in a ghostly empty manison in which one of the participants may or may not have been killed, a mysterious reappearance and a culminating balloon journey. Good. Item #E14596B

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