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THE SPANISH GYPSY
by Eliot, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket; Author's Edition from Advance Sheets. Brown cloth boards with gilt spine and front board letterin
- Seller
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Trumbull, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Good with no dust jacket; Author's Edition from Advance Sheets. Brown . cloth boards with gilt spine and front board lettering. Book is still . strong, although frayed at spine ends and worn at corners, with water . damage to the corner of back board. Prior owner name first preliminary . page.. 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. The Spanish Gypsy is a narrative poem set in fifteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young woman, Fedalma. She was born a gypsy, but was taken from her parents by the Spaniards during a raid against the Moors. She was raised in luxury and as a Catholic by her fiancé Don Silva's family. Her father, a leader of the gypsies later appears and she must chose between her fiance and her people. ; 7 x 5 x 1 inches; 287 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blackbird Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6677
- Title
- THE SPANISH GYPSY
- Author
- Eliot, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Author's Edition from Advance Sheets. Brown cloth boards with gilt spine and front board letterin
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Non-Mystery / Collectible Fiction;
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About the Seller
Blackbird Bookshop
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Trumbull, Connecticut
About Blackbird Bookshop
Blackbird Bookshop is an internet-only bookstore specializing in Mystery and Suspense, and Modern First Editions. We have high standards for any book in our stock, regardless of the age of the book. If we wouldn't be proud to display it in our personal collection, we won't sell it.
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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