The Vicissitudes of Evangeline
London: Duckworth & Co., 1905.
Price: $175.00
Hardcover. First edition. Complete in two volumes. 120; 121-[280] pp. With a frontispiece portrait. 18 cm. In contemporary three quarter brown levant leather and marbled paper boards, two morocco spine labels with gilt titles, raised bands, gold tooling, top edge gilt, with marbled endpapers. Both volumes are near fine with some rubbing. Born Elinor Sutherland, Glyn was a British novelist and scriptwriter famous for her erotic fiction and her use of "It" as a euphemism for sex appeal. A handsome set of the first edition printed at the Chiswick Press. Scarce.
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