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1926 hardcover has rubbed and bumped corners, edge wear to boards, some rubbing to spine label, nice edging, nice solid binding, a few light fox marks on a few pages but overall nice clean pages, a G+ copy in all of this scarce almost century-old fascinating read.
The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765 Edited by her Kinsman Alexander Blacker Kerr by Knox, Cleone [pseud. for Magdalen King-Hall, 1904- ]
by Knox, Cleone [pseud. for Magdalen King-Hall, 1904- ]
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The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765 Edited by her Kinsman Alexander Blacker Kerr
by Knox, Cleone [pseud. for Magdalen King-Hall, 1904- ]
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N.Y., Appleton, 1926. Hard Cover. vii, 249 p.21 cm. First pub., London, 1925. Published as an actual diary of a man-hungrary Irish girl of a well-off family, always on the verge of eloping, this was hailed as the work of a female Pepys. It was revealed to be the work of a nineteen yearold girl. Stock# 31,080. Vg, spine darkened/ no dj.
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- Publisher N.Y., Appleton, 1926
- Keywords Historical Fiction
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THE DIARY OF A YOUNG LADY OF FASHION IN THE YEAR 1764-1765 Edited By Her Kinsman, Alexander Blacker Kerr
by Cleone Knox
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The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765. Edited by her Kinsman Alexander Blacker Kerr.
by KNOX, Cleone. [KING-HALL, Magdalen].:
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New York: D.Appleton and Company, 1926.. 1st US edition Pp.249, errata slip tipped-in to foreword page, gift message to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers. Green cloth spine with patterned paper-covered boards rather rubbed, oritinal paper label to spine darkened. Good. "The book covers the Grand Tour of a genteel Irish lady, Cleone, her father and her brother. From Ireland to England to France and then on to Switzerland and Italy; a Grand Tour was considered a necessity for the young and the wealthy. In this case, the father takes his children on a long trip around Europe, hoping that his spirited daughter will forget her attachment to the charming and roguish Mr. Ancaster. Of course, she doesn�t. But her wonderful descriptions of her travels help make life without �Mr. A� (as she calls him) tolerable and diverting....Published in London in the year 1925, the book was thought to be a recent discovery by a man who claimed to be Cleone Knox�s descendant. It was great success in…
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