The Shadowless Man: Peter Schlemihl
by Von Chamisso, Adelbert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
First American edition from British sheets. Octavo. Translated by Sir John Bowring. Color frontispiece and 28 b/w illustrations by Gordon Browne. Original green pictorial cloth with design in green, red, orange, blue and black on front cover and spine. No dust jacket. Very good. 106 pages.
Large pictorial bookplate of Charles Fish Howell on front pastedown.
Small gift card signed Lucy laid in loose.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2222471
- Title
- The Shadowless Man: Peter Schlemihl
- Author
- Von Chamisso, Adelbert
- Illustrator
- Gordon Browne
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Pages
- 106
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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