FASHIONABLE LIFE
by EASTMAN, MARY H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J.B Lippincott and Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, blind stamped sl. decorated boards, with a gilt title to the spine, but no publishers legend. The head and tail of the spine is a little scuffed, chipped, faded and bumped, but complete. All hinges sound. Yellow flecked endpapers. x + 394 pp. The Author's Dedication reads " To Virginia, My Dear and Only Daughter.........I have not attempted to describe the Opera, the Ball-Room, the Matinee. These, the Highways of Fashionable Life are open, in our country, to the multitude. I have wandered into paths less frequented and tell what I have seen; hoping to show the effects of a system, in which pleasure is the chief aim, on the Heart and on the Destiny of Woman." Mary Henderson Eastman (1818-1890) ......"Captain and Mrs. Eastman were stationed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from 1841 through 1848. Already an accomplished artist, Captain Eastman recorded the daily life of the Sioux and Winnebago who lived in the area. Eastman's drawings formed the basis for the illustrations in all of Mary Eastman's books, tho this particular book is unillustrated. In the Preface Mrs Eastman tells us of looking in on her sleeping daughter and having attended the funeral of a neighbour's child is overcome with anxiety for her daughters path in life, etc, etc. These tales/'episodes' include a tale of the 'red man', the Dakotas and their gods. Early Feminist and 'Women's Lib' stories?. A pencil name and date (1858) on the front free endpaper, light scattered foxing, and a brown spot affecting the blank borders of pps 39 - 56, top edge and fore-edges 'age-dusty' o/w a Very clean, tight and bright copy. Scarce.; 50251; 8vo .
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- Bookseller
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50251
- Title
- FASHIONABLE LIFE
- Author
- EASTMAN, MARY H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J.B Lippincott and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- Dakota Indians, American Literature, Women Writers, Feminism, Women's Lib,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Womens Interests; Fiction; American Literature;
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Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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About the Seller
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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Carmarthen
About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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