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Memories of Old Friends: being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, from 1835 to 1871; edited by Horace N. Pym
de Fox, Caroline
- Usado
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- Estado
- Very Good +
- Librería
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1882. Hardcover. Very Good +. xxviii, 378 p.; 20 cm. Publisher's dark red-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; boards have bevelled edges. Black endpapers. Includes index. First American edition. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "S. S. Stafford Feb. 1882." Former owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Jack Fox with illustration of a fox with a book. Caroline Fox (1819-1871), a member of an English Quaker family, recorded her observations of prominent scientists and intellectuals of her time, including John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle. Her father, Robert Were Fox (1789-1877), was a geologist and inventor. In Very Good+ Condition: edges lightly rubbed; slightly cocked; minor loss at head of spine; clean and tight.
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- Librería
- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 006205
- Título
- Memories of Old Friends: being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, from 1835 to 1871; edited by Horace N. Pym
- Autor
- Fox, Caroline
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good +
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- J. B. Lippincott & Co
- Lugar de publicación
- Philadelphia
- Fecha de publicación
- 1882
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Biography & Autobiography; Women's History & Biography; Women Writers; Quakerism;
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