CALAVAR; OR, THE KNIGHT OF THE CONQUEST: A ROMANCE OF MEXICO.
Volume 1 (of two) volumes.
- Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1834.
- 8vo.
- original brown cloth, paper spine label.
- xxviii, (29)-278, (2), (12) pages.
- ISBN: none
Price: $100.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 68523
First edition of author's first book. (BAL 1152). With a 12 page publisher's catalogue at the end of each volume - being state B in the first volume ("Just Published ... Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"). No priority assigned by BAL. Robert Montgomery Bird was a well-known Delaware author that resided in New Castle. "Fun fact: my parents bought Robert Montgomery Bird's home in New Castle, DE, at 212 Delaware Street. My mother actually still lives there today!" -Rob Fleck, Director, Oak Knoll Books.
Label chipped. Spine faded. Boards rubbed.
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