(#80460) THE LOST VIOL. Shiel.

THE LOST VIOL. London: Ward Lock & Co Limited, 1908. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-4] 5-317 [318: blank] + 16-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, inserted frontispiece with illustration by Howard Somerville, original decorated black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red, green and gold. First British edition. Romantic mystery novel first published in New York by Clode in 1905. "The American edition is fairly common in at least one of its variants; the British edition is very scarce." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 196. Morse, The Works of M. P. Shiel Updated (1980), pp. 147-48. Hubin (1994) p. 737. Wolff 6293. Some light scattered foxing to text block, a bright, about fine copy in about very good decorated dust jacket (gray paper stock printed in orange and dark green; design on front and spine panels matches that on the cloth binding) with some darkening to spine panel, shelf wear and a bit of minor chipping at corner tips, and chips from head and tail of spine panel, former with loss of "T" in "THE," latter just touching lower edges of a few letters of publisher's imprint. Overall, a reasonably nice example of a rare jacket. (#80460).

Price: $1,500.00

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