The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell. Volume I & II
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893.
Price: $65.00
Hardcover. First edition. Two volume set. 502pp, 578pp. Blue cloth gilt titles. Pages age-toned, contemporary owner's name in volume two, spine ends frayed, still a very good set. Wallace was U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), Turkey from 1881 to 1885.
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Lew Wallace
birth name: Lewis Wallace
born: 4/10/1827
died: 2/15/1905
Biography
American soldier, lawyer, diplomat, and author, principally known for his historical novel Ben Hur(1880). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore