KLOSTERHEIM: OR, THE MASQUE. BY THE ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER.
by [De Quincy, Thomas]
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- Hardcover
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Edin & Lon: William Blackwood/ Lon: T. Cadell,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1832. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; [4], 305, [1] pp, lacking ads. pages; Modern cloth; binding and contents very good. Lower margin of last leaf shows evidence of tape removal. Pencil erasure to upper margin of half title. Dampstain to upper edge of last leaves. 1st edition of De Quincys only book-length work of fiction. His nom de plume was a reference to Confessions of an English Opium Eater, published in 1822. .
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- Title
- KLOSTERHEIM: OR, THE MASQUE. BY THE ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER.
- Author
- [De Quincy, Thomas]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- William Blackwood/ Lon: T. Cadell,
- Place of Publication
- Edin & Lon
- Date Published
- 1832
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