North (Marianne) Symonds, Mrs John Addington [Janet Catherine] . Recollections

Botany.- North (Marianne).- Symonds, (Mrs. John Addington [Janet Catherine]) Recollections of a Happy Life, Being the Autobiography of Marianne North, 2 vol., second edition, signed presentation copy, signed by the author to vol 1., pastedown, addressed to 'Maggie & Graham Dakyns', with a hand-written letter pasted to the half title from Marianne North, signed, also addressed to Mrs. Dakyns; Some Further Recollections of a Happy Life, first edition, also from the library of Mr and Mrs Dakyns, and later Alvilde Lees-Milne, signed and dated 1962 to half title, frontispiece portraits, tissue guards, map, f. publisher's advertisements to vol 2., the odd spot and browning, more so to endpapers, frontispieces, and title pages, original cloth, bumping to tips of spines and corners, very slight loss, light marks, 1892-93; and various correspondence and ephemera, including a type-written letter from Marianne North, hand-written letter from Dame Katharine Furse to Alvilde Lees-Milne regarding North, Journal of The Royal Horticultural Society article, 'Marianne North' by Alvide Lees-Milne, 1964, and others (c.10)

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