ELSIE VENNER: A ROMANCE OF DESTINY
Book Details + Condition: Arno Press (New York). First Edition thus, 1976. One of the scarcer Arno titles. Part of Arno Press' hard-to-find "Supernatural & Occult Fiction" collection. Facsimile reprint of the original publication by Oliver Wendall Holmes Sr., originally released in 1861. Hardcover with purple boards and silver titling to front and spine. 487 pages; Illustrated. The novel by American author and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was dubbed the first of his "medicated novels", telling the story of a young woman whose mother was bitten by a rattlesnake while pregnant, which imbued the child with some characteristics of the reptile.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Book is in near-new, unread condition, with firm binding, bright boards, and a clean interior. Please see our other listings for more rare Arno Press publications.
