Inscribed to the Author's Father-in-Law, Actor Joe Jefferson

The House of White Shadows. A Novel. [With:] Great Porter Square: A Mystery Seventh edition. [With]: In a Silver Sea. New edition. [With:] The Mystery of M. Felix. A Novel. [With:] The Nine of Hearts. [With:]: Miser Farebrother. A Novel. New edition. [With:] The Sacred Nugget. An Australian Story. Sixth edition. [With:] A Strange Enchantment.

London: Ward and Downey, later & Ward, Lock & Co, vd.

Price: $1,750.00


About the item

Later editions. 8 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to the Author's Father-in-Law, Actor Joe Jefferson. Bound in uniform contemporary red polished calf and pebbled boards, marbled edges. Very good.

Item #243000

Each volume INSCRIBED, "To Joe W. Jefferson [or, 'Josie'] / With the author's love [or 'love from']/ Ben. L. Farjeon."
Farjeon married Margaret Jane Jefferson, daughter of Joe Jefferson III, one of the greatest American actors of the 19th century and the archetypal Rip Van Winkle.