Deborah of Tod's: New Edition

Book Description

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1909. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, light circular mark at front board, inscription by author at ffep, touch of foxing at pastedowns, spine slightly cocked, else tight, bright and unmarred. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering, in blind decorative elements. 8vo. 340pp. From the library of Susan Mary Alsop. Born Susan Mary Jay in Rome in 1918, she was the daughter of Peter Augustus Jay (and Susan Alexander McCook) and granddaughter of Augustus Jay (and Emily Astor Kane), both statesmen, legates and/or ambassadors (in Europe, Asia and South America). The Jays, a Huguenot family, produced John Jay, co-author of the Federalist Papers, Foreign Secretary and the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Many of the volumes from her library were from that of her father and grandfather and are so inscribed (as noted). Susan Mary [Jay] Alsop, in addition to being one of the great political hostesses in Washington's circles, was an author in her own right, producing a noted biography of Vita Sackville-West's mother, “Lady Sackville” (1978); and also “Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris” (1982), and “The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815” (1984). Inscribed, "With the author's very warmest regards + kind wishes for the New Year to Mr + Mrs Kane. / Dec 31st 1919 / Betty de la Pasture". Inscribed to the parents of Emily Astor Kane, wife of Augustus Jay.

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