All about health and beauty for the black woman; illustrated by Harvey Boyd
by Sims, Naomi
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Hardcover. xvi, 296p., illustrated with numerous sketches and diagrams, and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself shows mild wear at top and tail of spine panel, while the dust jacket is in poor shape, missing large chunks from its spine area, but don't discard, what's left has informative text and a big photoportrait of author (and "supermodel") Sims. Sims not a physician, but a savvy consumer of health care and beauty tech, and the advice of specialists. Writes well.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56715
- Title
- All about health and beauty for the black woman; illustrated by Harvey Boyd
- Author
- Sims, Naomi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American; Women; Self-help; bootstrap uplift inspirational; Health, Health care; Costume;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
All books subject to prior sale Major Institutions can be billed. ALL BOOKS ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION OR BETTER UNLESS NOTED. All books returnable for any reason within thirty days of receipt.
About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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- Spine
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Poor
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- Jacket
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