1877 Vineta The Phantom City by shops Frances A Shaw Cobweb Series of Fiction Edition 1800s RARE Antique Book

1877 rare and scarce antique book, “Vineta, The Phantom City,” by Frances A. Shaw. Boston: Estes and Lauriat Edition. RARE and SCARCE Cobweb Series of Fiction edition. Ink/pencil inscriptions and loose spine. Please see photos for condition and message me with any questions or concerns.

CHAPTER I.
THE WIDOW AND HER SON.
THE hot summer afternoon neared its close. The sun had already set, but the twilight glow still lingered in the western sky, and was mirrored in the sea, which, scarcely rippled by a zephyr's breath, caught the last splendors of the dying day.

At some distance from the shore along which
ran the great promenade of the fashionable watering-place of C—, usually thronged with visitors at this hour, stood a solitary country house, modest shops and unpretending, but distinguished from the large and splendid villas of the neighborhood by the beauty of its situation and its outlook over the sea to the horizon's verge. It was a quiet, secluded spot, well fitted to be the abode of people seeking retirement and desiring no part in the gay, excited life around them. At an open glass door leading out upon a balcony stood a lady in deep mourning.