Ambarina: Novela Domestica Cubana por Felicia

Habana, 1915. Good.. 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. 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.