STORIES OF NAPLES AND THE CAMORRA ... With Introductory Memoir of the Author by J. B. Capper. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1896. Octavo, original blue-gray cloth. First edition. Collects two novellas and two short stories. The author was a traveler and scholar particularly interested in Italy. His 1873 book, THE CHARM AND THE CURSE, was a long narrative poem based on one of the Eddas. Not in Wolff. 1896 Christmas gift inscription on front free endpaper. Cloth sunned, especially the spine panel, else a very good copy with clean and tight interior. Now a scarce book in the trade. (#115490).

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