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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 303 pp. : illustrated ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0688087175 ; LCCN: 90-13473 ; OCLC: 22310692 ; sea green and red cloth with gold lettering, in pictorial dustjacket ; "This is a story about tracking--and sidetracking. It began in 1973, when I decided to edit the letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to better understand that author, who at nineteen wrote the novel Frankenstein.two men who appeared toward the end of the volume, David Lyndsay, a writer, and Walter Sholto Dougla s, the husband of Mary Shelley's dear friend Isabella Robinson Douglas.Buried in the letters referring to Lyndsay and Douglas was a tale of its own." [David Lyndsay and Walter Sholto Douglas were the same person, and despite historical and legal evidence to the contrary, that person was a woman]-- from the introduction and dustjacket. ; FINE/FINE. Book.