Adventures in Shadow-Land. Containing Eva's Adventures in Shadow-Land ... and The Merman and The Figure-Head. Two Volumes in One.
de Nauman (Mary D.) [Mrs. Mary Dummett (Nauman) Robinson] and Clara F. Guernsey [pseudonym of Helen M. Wright]
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Philadelphia: Lippincott, (Copyright 1871, but bound ca.1880). . Original brown pictorial cloth with a floral design, spine and front cover designed and lettered in black, the spine titled ("Eva's Adventures") on a panel of gilt. The end papers bear publisher's advertisments. One leaf of ads at the rear. The two works bound together, separately paginated (169 + 117). Ownership signature on the half-title leaf, inner hinges are cracked, in general a clean very good copy. There exists an illustrated edition of these two stories which was published by Lippincott in 1874, in the Enchanting Fairy Library. (The plates in the Nauman work have a distinctly Alice-in-Wonderland flavour to them). The Guernsey work was published by Lippincott in 1871 in an illustrated edition titled: "The Merman and the Figure-Head: A Christmas Story". It contains 117 pages, and is identical to this copy save for the illustrations. This 1871 edition is not illustrated. We may assume that the Nauman/Robinson work also had a separate, illustrated edition in 1871, but no copy has been located. This volume may have been a Cheap Edition, or remainder, using leftover sheets of the first editions, but not including illustrations. A date within the ads on the rear end paper suggests a publication date of 1880. The Guernsey work, "The Merman ...." is extraordinary in that it features a talking whale named Moby Dick. Both authors are present in Wright's American Fiction 1851 - 1875, but being juveniles, these works are not described therein. A scarce book.
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- Adventures in Shadow-Land. Containing Eva's Adventures in Shadow-Land ... and The Merman and The Figure-Head. Two Volumes in One.
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- Nauman (Mary D.) [Mrs. Mary Dummett (Nauman) Robinson] and Clara F. Guernsey [pseudonym of Helen M. Wright]
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