A DIPLOMAT'S DIARY. By Julien Gordon [pseudonym]. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1890. Octavo, original two-part cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Bittersweet romance about a suave unmarried European diplomat in St. Petersburg who falls in love with a pretty young American woman over the course of a Russian winter. In the spring she leaves him for another man. The reversal of the usual seasonal symbolism is characteristic of the author's skillfulness. She presented another bitter take on predatory romance the following year in VAMPIRES. Wright (III) 1315. Several signatures a bit proud, a very good copy. (#133403).
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