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Autobiography of Cecilia Beaux 

First edition.  Boston and New York:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Blue paper covers with navy cloth spine. 
• Boards show some wear, smudges, scuffing, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, frayed, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine has paper label and is darkened, with softened ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some notable toning, owner's mark, bookplate inside front cover.  
• Frontispiece is present.  
• Ex libris Sweet Briar Infimary.  Bookplate on front pastedown.  See photos.
• Illustrations are bright and clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges are tanned, show some shelf wear. 
• PS2024.1112

356 pages. 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches

A very good copy, in publisher's blue paper covers with cloth spine, of this first edition autobiography.  Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942), Impressionist painter known for her portraiture, was the first woman to teach at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.  She wrote her autobiography at age 75, in part to capture her family record and in part to recount the adventures of a lifetime spent with many people of note. 

Illustrated with photographic plates of works by the artist. 

Please see photos. More photos available upon request.

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