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Lucile (in deluxe padded leather binding)
by MEREDITH, Owen [pseudonym of Edward Robert, first Earl of Lytton (1831-1891)]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
Item Price
A$44.03A$35.22
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About This Item
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. [c.1902-1912]. Leather. A long-form poem by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, writing under his pseudonym of Owen Meredith in a deluxe, undated edition. "Lucile" was an incredibly popular work. First published in 1860, it appeared in at least 2000 different editions, by almost 100 publishers. Sid Huttner of the University of Iowa Library has an ongoing "Lucile Project" dedicated to the various permutations of this work. A frontis engraved portrait of the author has been cut out, leaving a only a zig-zag edge of the leaf. --- In padded, tooled black leather covers, all edges gilt and tinted red, with rounded corners to covers and leaves. Gilt-stamped cover and spine titling. --- With minor rubbing to spine ends, a couple of water spots to textblock lower edge and a hint of sunning to spine, else a well-preserved, sturdy copy of this scarce item.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; 369 pages .
Reviews
On Jun 25 2017, a reader said:
This was the most heart wrenching and hypnotic book of my life read at the tender age of my twenties miraculously falling into my hands while tinkering in a second hand store somewhere in San Francisco. The spirit of Lucile grabbed my soul and could not stop reading its addictive verse. I loved it from the depths of my being as if I had been catapulted from some unknown memory not wanting to know how it would end- fearing a too familiar attraction to her melancholy fate. It's like I didn't want to know how it'd end, but, nonetheless, I knew and couldn't stop reading as something unseen and painfully stringent was pulling me onward and forward to my doom.
Lucile : A must read.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84455
- Title
- Lucile (in deluxe padded leather binding)
- Author
- MEREDITH, Owen [pseudonym of Edward Robert, first Earl of Lytton (1831-1891)]
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- M. A. Donohue & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- [c.1902-1912]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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