The Fair God: A Tale Of The Conquest of Mexico Signed Limited Edition
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Signed Limited Edition of Lew Wallace's The Fair God: A Tale Of The Conquest of Mexico; one of only 250 copies signed by him
WALLACE, Lew. Illustrated by Eric Pape.
The Fair God: A Tale Of The Conquest of Mexico.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1899.
First edition of Union General Lew Wallace's first novel. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's embossed morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, rebacked, top edge gilt, patterned endpapers, elaborately illustrated with both in-text and full page engravings within gilt frames and with lettered tissue-guards by Eric Pape, decorated initials. One of 250 numbered copies inscribed and dated by the author on the limitation page, "Very respectfully Lew Wallace, Nov. 7, 1898" and signed by the illustrator beneath the frontispiece of volume I. This is number 11. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 109623