1897 Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Slipcase

The first edition, first impression of this work by English novelist Mary Mackey, who wrote under the pen name Marie Corelli, and is best known for science fiction novel 'A Romance of Two Worlds'.

In a custom cloth slip case.

In this sweeping tale, an acclaimed artist named Armand Gervase meets a beautiful woman named Princess Ziska, with whom he feels eerily connected.

In this work, Corelli presents a supernatural tale of reincarnation, seduction, and revenge. 

With four pages of advertisements to the rear.

With the contemporary owner's inscription of Miles Brill-Marchand, dated 1898, to the front free endpaper.

A beautiful example of this fantastical novel.