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Lot 265
Sale 503 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Sep 13, 2017
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KEMBLE, Frances Anne (1809-1893)
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1863.8vo. 10pp. advertisements. Publisher's brown cloth (hinges starting, some light wear to spine ends). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the ads and word "about" repeated on p.314, line 6. Kemble, a British actress, married Pierce Mease Butler, a plantation owner in Georgia; they lived on his plantations in the winters of 1838 and 1839. Kemble kept a diary of her observations, which was passed around abolitionist circles prior to its 1863 publication during the Civil War. Howes K-70.

