Title: Infelicia.Author: Adah Isaacs MenkenPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, ...
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Title: Infelicia.Author: Adah Isaacs MenkenPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02274300CollectionID: CTRG97-B1978PublicationDate: 18680101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Poems. Facsimile letter from Charles Dickens (granting permission for dedication): p. [vi].Collation: v [i.e. viii], 141 p., [1] leaf of plates: ill.; 15 cm
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First Edition. Hardback. 16mo. 14 by 10 cms. pp 124. Thank you letter from Dickens reproduced at front of book. Original publisher's green cloth, bevelled covers, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, gilt facsimile of Ms Menken's signature.; top edge gilt. Engraved frontispiece and plate. Front cover slightly bubbled in places, with only minor rubbing to extremities in places; spine ends frayed with very small loss; junction of half title and title page partly cracked; minor staining at bottom of rear fep and rear pastedown. Neat contemporary name on front endpaper. Near VG. he poet and actress Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-68) 'became legendary for her scandalous defiance of convention. She achieved international fame for her starring role in Mazeppa, where she played a role written for a man; in one scene she was stripped on stage to a flesh-colored body stocking and strapped to a horse, which raced on a narrow ramp above the theater. Despite her theatrical fame, Menken wanted to be known as a writer, penning essays on Judaism for The Israelite weekly paper as well as a collection of poems. She cultivated friendships with Charles Dickens, Dante Gabrielle Rossetti, and George Sand and had an affair with Alexandre Dumas' (quoted from Alan Ackerman's contribution to the online Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women). The printed dedication of this book is to Charles Dickens. Very good solid clean tight copy with only slight wear.