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Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy 1849-1861: with recollections by Mrs. Ogilvy
by Heydon, Peter N. (and Philip Kelley (editors))
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0719531314
- ISBN 13
- 9780719531316
- Seller
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About This Item
London, John Murray, 1974, hardcover, xxxv-220 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slightest edge nicks, spine faded, in new Brodart sleeve. A collection of the correspondence between the two poets. The letters had been thought destroyed until their appearance in 1971. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and 8 sepia-toned plates. Appended: Letter from Mr. Ogilvy on the birth of his first son, Selected poems by Mrs. Ogilvy, Letter from EBB describing a journey made with the Ogilvys, Contemporary news cutting about EBB preserved by Mrs. Ogilvy, Ogilvy Genealogical Table, Index. ISBN 9780719531316
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7894
- Title
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy 1849-1861: with recollections by Mrs. Ogilvy
- Author
- Heydon, Peter N. (and Philip Kelley (editors))
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0719531314
- ISBN 13
- 9780719531316
- Publisher
- John Murray Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1974
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