Search Results: records of a girlhood records of by kemble frances ann

Henry Holt and Company. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Front hinge broken. Rear Hinge Cracked. Spine cracked and split. Pages loose. Reading copy only. (Literature, Biographies, Anthohlogy)

Henry Holt & Company, 1879-01-01. Hardcover. Good. [Women's History] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear. 605 pages. Front gutter weakened.

New York, NY: Henry Holt & Company. FR/NO DUSTJACKET. 1879. ........ Cloth. 8vo., 605 pp., (iv), Binding rubbed, frayed and lightly soiled; cracked with broken but attached hinges, occasional soiling with owner's markings on title-page and free end-paper .

New YOrk: Henry Holt and Company. Good. 1879. Hardcover. 606 pages. This is a rough , ex-library copy. Good for reading or reference. .

New York: Henry Holt & Co.. Good. 1879. Hardcover. This is an ex-library copy with usual ex-library marks including a card envelope at the rear. Reback with new end pages. This is a rough copy good for reading or reference only. .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: Holt, 1883. Second edn. 8vo, pp. 605. A very nice copy. Autobiographical notes by the noted actress and writer.

New York: Henry Holt, 1879. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt and white; chocolate brown coated endpapers; [vi],605,[5]pp; one leaf of ads at front; engraved frontispiece. Bookplate of Anna M. Fisher; 1879 gift inscription to front flyleaf. Lightly rubbed and spine lightly dulled, but overall a fresh, appealing copy: Very Good.

New York: Henry Holt, 1884 / 1882 / 1891. First American Edition. First printings of Records of Later Life and Further Records. Second American edition of Records of a Girlhood. Octavo (19.5cm). Uniformly bound in varying colors of cloth, stamped with white floral all-over design, titled in gilt on front and spines; chocolate brown endpapers; [vi],605,[1]pp; [vi],676pp; [iv],380pp; lists of titles at front; portrait frontispiece in each volume. Records of a Girdhood is ex-library, with Egremont Free Library bookplate, paper and glue adhesions to pastedowns, and call number on spine; else straight, and sound with scattered foxing: Good. Records of Later Life is straight and tight, front hinge cracked, lightly rubbed, Very Good. Further Records lightly rubbed, sewing mildly loosened, both hinges cracked, just Very Good. Fanny Kemble was a popular British-American actress and bestselling memoirist. Her several journals are "rich psychological and cultural documents," with "keen insights into the… Read More

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1878 / 1882. First Edition. First printing of Girlhood; first U.K. edition of Later Life. Octavo (19cm). Six volumes, uniformly rebound in half brown morocco and marbled paper, top edges gilt; marbled endpapers; Girlhood I: [vi],299,[1]pp; II: [iv],336pp; III: [iv],321,[1]pp; Later Life I: [iv],288pp; II: [iv],295,[1]pp; III: [iv],422pp. "Walz" stamp to flyleaf in each volume. Pencil annotations in vols I-II of Girlhood; ink note about Kemble's death facing t.p. of vol. I. Sound and stable, lightly rubbed at edges, f.f.e.p. neatly detached in vol. I of Later Life, generally clean with slight toning: Very Good. Fanny Kemble was a popular British-American actress and bestselling memoirist. Her several journals are "rich psychological and cultural documents," with "keen insights into the enormous changes transforming" America (Mainiero American Women Writers II:446). Her best-known work is now the abolitionist Journal of A Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839… Read More

London: Richard Bentley, 1890. First editions. Very good+. First editions. Eight volumes. Uniformly bound by Mudie in quarter brown morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and rules. Quite scarce with all eight volumes assembled. Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was author of the famous antislavery Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838-1839.