THE TRAGIC MUSE
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890. First Edition. Item #7978
First Printing, one of 1,000 copies. Two octavo volumes (18.5cm); original forest green cloth, with titling and rule stamped in gilt on spines and front covers; [vi],[1]-422,[2]; [iv],[423]-882,[2]pp. Contemporary owner's initials (in ink) to front endpaper of each volume, dated Jan.9th '92. Hint of foxing to endpapers, trivial wear to spine ends and lower board edges, else internally fresh; Near Fine. A novel centered around the fortunes of two would-be artists, originally serialized in the Atlantic Monthly between January 1889-May 1890. Edel & Laurence A34a; BAL 10590.
Price: $500.00