Search Results: the diary of fanny burney by burney fanny

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1961. Last Reprinted. 416 pages. Dust jacket over black cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild foxing. Moderate sunning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

London: Everyman's Library [J. M. Dent & Sons LTD], 1966. Later Printing. Very Good/Very Good. Edited with an introduction by Lewis Gibbs. Everyman's Library 960. In original unclipped jacket in protective sheet. Jacket with illustration on front and details of the Everyman's Library including a list of authors on the back. Some scuffing and creasing to jacket. Black cloth over boards with gilding on spine. Some bumping to covers including one corner. Pencil note on first blank, otherwise the interior is clean, clear, crisp and in nearly unread condition.  Pages: (16) 416     Dimensions: 7½ x 4¾ x 1.

London, England: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited., 1950 Reprint in small hardcover without a dust jacket. Light sunning to the top of the spine and front board. The jacket has some soiling, small tears and chips, piece missing from the top of the spine and front panel. Good/Poor.

John Day, 1976. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1976. No Edition Remarks. 335 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Edited by Barbara G. Schrank and David J. Supino. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Small white sticker to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly forward leaning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Scuffing and light marking overall.

London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1961. 1961 printing; dj in mylar; black c w/gilt title; s416 clean, unmarked pages/index. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 vo.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1941. Reprint . Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Firmly bound, pink cloth boards. Faded spine. Decorated end papers. No jacket.

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John Day, New York NY,, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and white, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly creased and frayed at extremities.

London and New York: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd / E.P. Dutton & Co, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A selection of Diary entries dated 1778 - 1839 and first published first published in seven volumes 1842-46. This Everyman's Library edition first published 1940; 1966 reprint thus. Hardcover in black cloth with gilt titling to the spine. Top edge dyed. Includes an Index. Square, firmly bound and with very little wear, this copy is very good or better. The dust jacket has a little more wear, particularly to the lower front where some of the pigment has been stripped off as if it stuck to something adhesive like tape, but it is otherwise well-preserved and very good.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1940. Everyman's. hardback. Good, red clothbound boards (spine faded), missing d/j, blindpressed design on cover, gilt spine titling clear; pages clean and unmarked.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Everyman's Library #890. Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters' starting the diary at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d'Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she captured the changing times around her, creating brilliantly comic and candid portraits of those she encountered - including the 'mad' King George, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and a charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. She also describes, in her most moving piece, undergoing a mastectomy at fifty-nine without anaesthetic. Whether a carefree young girl or a mature… Read More

London : R. Ingram, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the library of Maclay with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; 256 pages : portrait ; 19 cm. Subjects; Burney, Fanny (1752-1840) ; Diaries. D'Arblay, Frances (1752-1840). Novelists, English 18th century ; Diaries. Novelists, English 19th century ; Diaries. English fiction Burney, Fanny correspondence, diaries, etc. Great Britain Court and courtiers History 18th century. Great Britain Court and courtiers History 19th century. Great Britain Court and courtiers ; Diaries. Genre; Illustrated.

J.M. Dent, 1961-01-01. Unknown Binding. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, Hardback. Original dust cover laminated onto front cover. Usual stamps and marking. Clean text, sound binding.