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Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian
by Margaret Armstrong
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Bayfield, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, octavo, pp. vi, 387. Frontis illustration of Kemble from a portrait by Thomas Sully. Illustrated endpapers. Very Good with just light shelf wear in the publisher's maroon cloth over boards with gilt spine and upper board lettering and gilt upper board decorative device. Bookplate with previous owner's name on the front endpaper. February 2024
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Details
- Bookseller
- Honest Dog Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A803981X034CU
- Title
- Fanny Kemble
- Author
- Margaret Armstrong
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Pages
- 387
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Honest Dog Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Honest Dog Books
Biblio member since 2022
Bayfield, Wisconsin
About Honest Dog Books
Honest Dog Books is a family-run new and used general interest bookstore with a long history in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Owners Julie Buckles and Charly Ray are wilderness travelers with a team of sled dogs, two teenagers, and deep love for community, literature, and conversation.
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Always feel free to email with questions, for extra pictures, shipping charge information, or if you're interested in making an offer different than the listed price! Our books may come in protective mylar or other coverings, these are all easily removable and not directly attached to the book itself.
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- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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