A Few More Memories

First edition, first impression.  286pp, with monochrome plate frontispiece and 16 further monochrome plate illustrations.  In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little rubbed around a slightly faded spine, slightly pushed at spine ends.  Hint of toning to endpapers and first and last few leaves else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Mary Anderson (1859-1940) was a successful and celebrated American actress to transfered to the London stage for period.  She returned to London after a breakdown and later married Antonio Fernando de Navarro, returning only to the stage for fund-raising performances during the first world war.  But the real joy of her autobiography is the insight she gives to others – she had a remarkable knack of knowing all the right people and cultivating friendships with the talented and learned.