Lucile
by Meredith, Owen [Robert Bulwer-Lytton]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Savage, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. A novel written in verse about a young women in 19th century England and her pursuit of happiness. This is the author's best known work. Illustrated with full pages plates and in text vignettes. In a gift binding.
Beautifully bound in full tan leather boards. Both covers feature a marbled tree design. Gilt title to dark brown title label on spine. Floral devices to five spine compartments. Gilt design to edges and dentelles of both boards. Marbled endpapers and full edges gilt. Minor bookworm damage to inside of front board. Two inch split to leather at bottom of front hinge. Rubbing and minor wear to hinges, edges, and corners of boards. Cracking to leather on spine. Occasional spots of soiling and finger smudges to margins. A few small spots of foxing. Light evidence of dampstain to about 1/4 inch along all exterior margins of textblock. A few small blue pen markings to title page. Text and images are not affected. Very slight cockling to pages. Previous owner's signature in pen dated 1881 to front free endpaper. Slight splay to boards. An attractive book despite noted condition issues. 332 pages. POE/081722.
Beautifully bound in full tan leather boards. Both covers feature a marbled tree design. Gilt title to dark brown title label on spine. Floral devices to five spine compartments. Gilt design to edges and dentelles of both boards. Marbled endpapers and full edges gilt. Minor bookworm damage to inside of front board. Two inch split to leather at bottom of front hinge. Rubbing and minor wear to hinges, edges, and corners of boards. Cracking to leather on spine. Occasional spots of soiling and finger smudges to margins. A few small spots of foxing. Light evidence of dampstain to about 1/4 inch along all exterior margins of textblock. A few small blue pen markings to title page. Text and images are not affected. Very slight cockling to pages. Previous owner's signature in pen dated 1881 to front free endpaper. Slight splay to boards. An attractive book despite noted condition issues. 332 pages. POE/081722.
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
- The Kelmscott Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35972
- Title
- Lucile
- Author
- Meredith, Owen [Robert Bulwer-Lytton]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1882
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop
Biblio member since 2009
Savage, Maryland
About The Kelmscott Bookshop
Our bookshop is open by appointment only in Historic Savage Mill. We specialize in artists' books, private press, William Morris, and general rare and antique books.
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Gilt
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
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- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...