The Autobiography Of Joseph Jefferson, Part I
by Jefferson, Joseph
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
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Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Century Company, 1889. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 23pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 11 drawings and portraits, including a full-page portrait with facsimile signature, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XXXIX, No. 1, November, 1889. This is the opening segment of the popular actor's autobiography and includes the sections My First Playhouse, Further Recollections of Childhood, Westward Ho, Chicago in 1839 - An Adventure in Springfield, Hard Times, James Wallack, Sr., the Elder Booth, Macready, and Our Voyage on a Flatboat. Illustrations include a view of the Old Jewish Burying-Ground at Pearl Street, near Chatham, New York City, and portraits of Tyrone Power as Corporal O'Conor, another of Power, Joseph Jefferson, Sr., Cornelia Jefferson as Jessica, Joseph Jefferson the grandfather, as Solus in Every One Has His Faults, James Wallack, Macready, Junius Brutus Booth as Richard the Third, and Booth again with facsimile signature. Scarce. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..
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- Bookseller
- Legacy Books II (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015035
- Title
- The Autobiography Of Joseph Jefferson, Part I
- Author
- Jefferson, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Publisher
- The Century Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1889
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- DRAMA, THEATRE, THEATER, PLAYS, ACTORS, ACTING, PERFORMING ARTS, DRAMATIC Arts, BIOGRAPHY, Performance Art
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