The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl. A Story of Fashionable Life

Grant, Robert

Verlag: London Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington 1881, 1881

Beschreibung

First or early U.K. edition. 192 pages + 32-page publisher's catalogue to the rear dated January 1881. The book is firmly bound in illustrated thick glazed card covers with paper spine strip, slightly more robust than a paperback, the covers are rubbed, grubby and chipped and the spine strip is creased and fragile, with some loss. The text block is slightly foxed, marked, dusty and age toned, with loss to some roughly opened page edges. Grant's first novel describes the adventures of a young debutante entering New York high society in the late nineteenth century, her encounters with unsuitable young men, advice from more experienced older ladies that she should add an element of the wild, exotic dance of the age, the cancan into her nature, and her eventual finding of love. It was published in the U.S. in the previous year and the first edition is relatively obtainable, whereas most copies of this attractive, cheaply produced U.K. edition, intended for the burgeoning Victorian railway market, have long since disintegrated. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6415

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Titel: The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl. A Story...

Verlag: London Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington 1881

Erscheinungsdatum: 1881

Auflage: 1. Auflage