JULIA NEWBERRY'S DIARY by Julia Newberry, intro by Margaret Ayer Barnes - 1933

NY: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. G+. (1933). 2nd ptg ss. Contemporary observations on Chicago and Europe in 1870's esp. the Chicago fire, by a young girl who died in Rome at 22. . Spine sunned, boards slightly faded otherwise tight clean copy. .

Selwyn & Blount Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Good. 176 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Pink cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., 1933. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1933. Fourth Printing. 176 pages. No dust jacket. Pink cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white frontispiece. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Minor pencil and pen markings to front free end-paper. Binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Book has a moderate forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened. Sunning to spine. Minor dark marks to both boards. Top edge of text block is dust marked.

1933. (WOMEN'S STUDIES). JULIA NEWBERRY'S DIARY. Introduction by Margaret Ayer Barnes and Janet Ayer Fairbank. New York: W.W. Norton, (1933). (?)First edition. The journal of a young Chicago girl in 1869-70. Frontis. portrait. Pink cloth, wear to extremes and spine faded. Very good.

New York: Norton, 1933. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. First printing, 1933. 8vo, bright raspberry cloth gilt, 176 pp. Printed at the Lakeside Press. Near fine, mainly unopened and uncut copy, no jacket. With two laid in letters addressed to Storer Lunt, an editor at Norton who was probably responsible for publishing this book, dated August 5th and September 7th 1934, from an Albert Bery. Both handwritten letters, from California, are very pleasant and mention Lunt's visiting him, and have to do with "my dear young friend, Julia Newberry, the memory of whom is and has been all these years most fragrant. I have tried to tell Miss Mygatt what the 'Diary' and 'Sketch Book' have done for me in recalling days of my Midhsipman life - among the highest of my sixty nine years of a wandering naval career..." The second letter says, after acknowledging receipt of two copies of The Diary, "... it recalls memories very dear to me. She was a remarkable young girl, far beyond her few short years, and had… Read More