Ambarina: Novela Domestica Cubana por Felicia
Habana: 1915. 227pp. Modern black quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Contemporary pencil ownership notations to title page and second leaf. Title page reinforced at gutter; final two leaves also reinforced in gutter, final leaf with some loss affecting a few words. Toned and foxed, on crude paper. Trimmed roughly in several areas. Good. Item #6262
Second edition, first published in 1858. Virginia Felicia Auber (1821-1897) was a Spanish woman who lived in Cuba for many years. She often wrote under the name "Felicia," as with the present work. She moved to Cuba as a young woman and spent the next forty years there, authoring several novels, most of which seem to be romances about women in Cuba. We locate a single copy of the first edition of 1858 at the University of Florida's Cuban collection; a single copy of this edition appears to be located at Harvard. A rare work by a 19th-century woman, and an interesting piece of early 20th century Cuban book production.
Price: $1,250.00