Reade, Charles — A Terrible Temptation

Detroit, Michigan, Craig and Taylor, . . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Publication date not give but a previous owner has penned "1871" to title page, indicating that this is likely an early reprint of the true First Edition, published that same year. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, bound in green cloth with designs stamped in black to front cover and spine, fine gilt lettering, with scuffed tips, bumped and lightly scuffed spine head and foot, some toning to and light soiling of endpapers, neat and tidy paste-downs but for previous owner inscriptions, one by ink-stamp; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Protected in a Mylar coat. 374 pp., with period publisher's advertisements. Fine frontis engraving.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good