LEILA OR THE SIEGE OF GRANADA And Calderon the Courtier
by Lytton Edward Bulwer
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green Longmans. Very Good. 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. 3/4 red leather over slightly faded red cloth. Spine with five raised bands and gilt decorated panels. Marble endpapers and page edges. Pictorial frontispiece & half-title page. Illustrated with full page engravings. Contents; Book 1 - 5 and Calderon the Courtier, in one volume. Mystical fiction with a spiritual lesson. Methuen Castle Armorial Book Plate inside front cover. Leaf 3 & 4 lightly foxed. Fiction; Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13136
- Title
- LEILA OR THE SIEGE OF GRANADA And Calderon the Courtier
- Author
- Lytton Edward Bulwer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Orme, Brown, Green Longmans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1838
- Keywords
- Fiction
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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