[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Signed BEN HUR

[Charles Agvent]

WALLACE, Lew. BEN HUR. New York: Harper Brothers, 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 by 
the author on the front free 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. $1,500.00	

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