Sydney Clifton; or Vicissitudes in Both Hemispheres. A Tale of the Nineteenth Century
by [FAY, THEODORE SEDGWICK]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Cloth a little worn; tear in the rear free endpaper volume one; tear in the printed label on volume two; very good copy.
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839, 1839. First edition. BAL 5696; Wright I, 941; American Imprints 55631. Cloth a little worn; tear in the rear free endpaper volume one; tear in the printed label on volume two; very good copy.. 2 vols, 12mo, original black cloth and printed paper labels. Two pages of publisher's advertisements in volume two. A picaresque tale about a young man who becomes peripherally involved in a number of crimes and misdeeds in New York and London in the early 19th century. Sydney Clifton, one of several novels by New York journalist Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807-1898), followed his novel Norman Leslie (1835), which Edgar Allan Poe famously and scandalously lambasted in a review that became a cause célèbre in Knickerbocker literary circles.
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- Bookseller
- The Brick Row Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28247
- Title
- Sydney Clifton; or Vicissitudes in Both Hemispheres. A Tale of the Nineteenth Century
- Author
- [FAY, THEODORE SEDGWICK]
- Format/Binding
- BAL 5696; Wright I, 941; American Imprints 55631
- Book Condition
- Used - Cloth a little worn; tear in the rear free endpaper volume one; tear in the printed label on volume two; very good copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839
- Date Published
- 1839
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