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Lucile
by Owen Meredith [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. Very Good. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First American Edition [Author's Edition]. 16mo; 352pp + 15 pages of Ticknor and Fields adverts at back. Blue cloth on boards with blind-embossed front panel and gold-stamped spine lettering set within an elaborate gilt surround. Brick endpapers. Gilt on all edges of textblock.
Binding eroded at crown and foot of spine and along edges; split beginning in middle of front joint, but not extending to top or bottom. Spine cloth and stamping darkened. Previous 19th-century owners' names on first blank page. Binding weakening but all pages secure. Light foxing throughout.
Meredith/Bulwer-Lytton's best-selling verse novel went through countless editions and many publishers before going out of print in 1938. This is the scarce first American edition. Our heroine, Lucile, is torn between an English and a French lover in her youth, but retires to saintly wisdom many decades and 5000+ lines of verse later as a nun, watching benevolently over the love lives of the next generation.
Binding eroded at crown and foot of spine and along edges; split beginning in middle of front joint, but not extending to top or bottom. Spine cloth and stamping darkened. Previous 19th-century owners' names on first blank page. Binding weakening but all pages secure. Light foxing throughout.
Meredith/Bulwer-Lytton's best-selling verse novel went through countless editions and many publishers before going out of print in 1938. This is the scarce first American edition. Our heroine, Lucile, is torn between an English and a French lover in her youth, but retires to saintly wisdom many decades and 5000+ lines of verse later as a nun, watching benevolently over the love lives of the next generation.
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
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000593
- Title
- Lucile
- Author
- Owen Meredith [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1860
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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