[Rarebooks] FS:1847 Fanny Kemble's Account of Leaving Her Husband with Original Photo and SIGNED Letter

[Charles Agvent]

BUTLER Mrs. [Fanny Kemble]. A YEAR OF CONSOLATION with AUTOGRAPH LETTER 
SIGNED (ALS). New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1847. First American Edition. 
Two volumes bound in one, publisher's black half morocco with matching 
corners. An account of the popular actress's year after leaving her 
husband, a wealthy Georgian plantation owner who ultimately divorced 
her. A 2-3/8" x 3-1/2" albumen photograph of Kemble is pasted to the 
verso of the front blank, and tipped to the verso of the rear endpaper 
is an uncommon AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Kemble to "My dear young Lucy" 
on "the order of nature for a pretty young girl to be bestowing flowers 
on an elderly woman." Occasional light foxing; front hinge holding by 
one cord, joints rubbed. Very Good. (#021264)        $350

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