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First Resorts; Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport & Coney Island
by Jon Sterngass
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0801865867
- ISBN 13
- 9780801865862
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£10.08£7.06
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About This Item
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 2001. Hardcover. First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine. Tan cloth boards and spine with brown lettering on spine. Pictorial end papers. 374 pp. A beautifully crafted account of how nineteenth-century Americans went in search of health, rest, and diversion, and, in the process, invented holiday destinations as "virtual holy centers for a secular society". The author's analysis of three paradigmatic resorts uncovers unsuspected depths, complexities, and significance in social practices all too ofter dismissed as "frivolous" and "marginal". A clean pristine edition.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003319
- Title
- First Resorts; Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport & Coney Island
- Author
- Jon Sterngass
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0801865867
- ISBN 13
- 9780801865862
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore, MD
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Health resorts, rest resorts, diversion centers, Saratoga Springs, Coney Island, Newport, Resorts, Resort Life, Eastern America Resorts, grand hotels, amusement parks, capitalist values, Aspen, Las Vegas, Orlando, leisure time
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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