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How We Spent the Autumn; or, Wanderings in Brittany. By the Authoresses of "The Timely Retreat"
by Wallace-Dunlop, Madeline & Rosalind
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Richard Bentley, 1860. Early feminine travel writing which is noted for emphasizing people over place by focusing on individuals they met and developing their own narrative personas, which would have been considered egotistical earlier in the period. Their younger sister Marion was a noted sufragette and artist. CONDITION Purple cloth with gilt title and decoration, bright gilt to all edges, chromithograph frontis illus in 5 tones, 342 pages. Copy is bright and clean, cloth is faded and chipped to spine ends and tips worn, prize inscription to front ep, tissue guard is toned, eps are split at hinge exposing mull which is intact.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14722
- Title
- How We Spent the Autumn; or, Wanderings in Brittany. By the Authoresses of "The Timely Retreat"
- Author
- Wallace-Dunlop, Madeline & Rosalind
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1860
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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