Amelie Rives [Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy] — The Quick or the Dead a Study

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1888 . Cloth. An early edition of Princess Amalie Rives Troubetzkoy's highly controversial and enormously popular first novel. An early appearance in print of this hugely successful novel, which quickly sold over 300,000 copies. Published in the same year as the first edition.With a portrait frontispiece of the author.Rives's scandalous novel depicts a newly widowed woman struggling with her erotic passion for her late husband's cousin.With a preliminary advertisement for Lippincott's Monthly Magazine to the start of the work, discussing the popularity of this work in in the April 1888 issue, and advertising a forthcoming work from the same author.With twenty-four pages of advertisements to the rear.Includes an article titled 'Western Investments for Eastern Capital', a biographical piece on Amelie Rives, and 'Book Talk&apos. In the publisher's original quarter calf binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with small losses of paper to board perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, otherwise clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .