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Le Fanu (J.S[heridan].) The Wyvern Mystery.
£150
A novel
London, Ward & Downey, 1889.
First one-volume edition. 8vo. Original brown decorative cloth, lettered in gilt.
Le Fanu’s late Victorian sensation novel combines Gothic gloom with family melodrama. The young heroine, Alice Maybell, returns to the gloomy Wyvern estate where she becomes entangled in secrets, inheritance disputes and forbidden love; the plot’s tense atmosphere and supernatural hints recall the author’s earlier ghost stories.
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Minor rubbing and bumping to extremities of cloth, overall an attractive example.
Illustrations by Brinsley Sheriden Le Fanu.
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