Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian
by Armstrong, Margaret
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Decatur, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Macmillan. 1938 1st ed. 387pp. burgundy cloth sm 4to w/gilt titles & device: Good in a tattered dj now stabilized in a Brodart poly cover [age browning of text and endpp; fore edge is foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A solid first edition copy of this bio of the British actress Fanny Kemble (1809-93), an antebellum celebrity in the USA, who used her prominence to criticize slavery.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Auldfarran Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18235
- Title
- Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian
- Author
- Armstrong, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1938 1st ed
- Publisher
- New York: Macmillan
- Keywords
- FAMOUS WOMEN BRITISH ACTRESSES BIOGRAPHY ANTEBELLUM PERIOD AMERICAN HISTORY SLAVERY ABOLITION GEORGIA GEORGIANA PIERCE BUTLER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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Auldfarran Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Auldfarran Books, IOBA
About Auldfarran Books, IOBA
Glossary
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- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.