Godfrey Morgan: A California Mystery

Description

First American edition after the George Munro cheap editions. Publisher’s tan pictorial cloth,maroon cover illustration, gilt cover title, brown spine title. 8vo., 19x14x3.5 cm. Charles Scribner’s Sons. New York. No date but 1883. viii, 272 pp. Translated by W.J. Gordon. 47 full-page illustrations, title page vignette. Illustrated by Leon Benett. Good plus, covers lightly soiled, spine ends and corners worn. An uncommon early edition of this tale of castaways on a Pacific island. “Big Trees” illustration inserted twice, once in place of the “Loading the ‘Dream’” illustration at page 58, otherwise complete with all the illustrations. weight: 1.6 lb.