Scylla or Charybdis? A Novel (Appletons' Town and Country Library, No. 177

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1895. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7x4x1. First edition. Spine slightly cocked, rear board creased, bookplate and ink stamp on front endpapers. 1895 Hard Cover. 272 pp. 12 pages of publisher ads follow text. In classical mythology, Scylla was a horrible six-headed monster who lived on a rock on one side of a narrow strait. Charybdis was a whirlpool on the other side. When ships passed close to Scylla's rock in order to avoid Charybdis, she would seize and devour their sailors.