[Rarebooks] FS: Fine copy, nicely illustrated, of BEN HUR Signed by the author

[Charles Agvent]

WALLACE, Lew. BEN HUR. New York: Harper 1903. Two volumes  bound
in  decorated  green cloth of this handsome reprint  illustrated  from
drawings  by William Martin Johnson and photographs, with nearly every
page  illustrated  with a drawing in the margin. INSCRIBED and  SIGNED
on the front endpaper of the first volume: "Crawfordsville,/Nov. 21st,
1904./Dear  Madam,/I  can do little more/than write my name/here,  and
wish  you/every  happiness  of life./Lew Wallace/Mrs. Beers."  A  fine
example  of this classic title, extremely difficult to find inscribed.
Fine, bright set.                                             $1500.00

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