Princess Nourmahal. By Mme. George Sand
Subtitle: a posthumous novel never before published, translated by Lew Vanderpoole
Publisher: By G. W. Dillingham, Publisher. Successor to G. W. Carleton & Co. Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding Company
Published: 1888
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. [2], vi, [7]-332. Original cloth. Bookplate of Lucille B. Robinson; signed “Lucille Hunking” on front free endpaper. Copies (3 p.) of literary notes from The Nation, Nov. 8 1888 and a letter to the editor have been removed from volume. The items are available in MS 580 in Special Collections (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A fraud by Vanderpoole, who claimed to have translated a posthumous, unpublished novel by George Sand. It was exposed almost immediately after publication (details laid in), and even before it was published, Vanderpoole was met with scepsis by Publishers' weekly, Sept. 17 &amp; 24, 1887, p. 316.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103499" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>