Records of Later Life by Frances Kemble, 1882 3 vols., half leather binding with gilt and raised ridges on spine, edgewear, previous owner's book plate, the front board of Vol 3 is detached, text blocks are tightly bound and the text is unmarked. See photos!
Frances (Fanny) Kemble was a popular English actor. She married into a wealthy family of Georgia plantation owners, and the conditions of slavery that she witnessed there at first hand caused her to become an ardent abolitionist. Her memoirs, consisting of her letters and comments thereon, are a window into a period of social and political transformation in American history.