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Ladies and Not So Gentle Women
by [WOMEN] Lewis, Alfred Allan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670858102
- ISBN 13
- 9780670858101
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Viking, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including the number one. Hard cover in fine condition with cream boards and teal spine cloth with gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings to note. Contains two sections of 8 leaves/16 pages each of glossy black & white photographs. Concludes with a section of Sources, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. 540 numbered pages. Dust jacket in fine condition; not price clipped.* From WorldCat, ""A group portrait of four remarkable - and wealthy - New York women whose lives became intertwined as they pioneered new roles for women. With dash, wit, intelligence, and industry. Elisabeth Marbury, her partner, Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Morgan, daughter of J.P.Morgan, and Anne Vanderbilt had the courage to use their privileged status to transform their world...""
Synopsis
Alfred Allan Lewis is the author of Man of the World: A Biography of Herbert Bayard Swope and numerous other nonfiction books, as well as several plays, television shows, and a radio production that won the Peabody Award. He lives in Miami, Florida.
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M000937
- Title
- Ladies and Not So Gentle Women
- Author
- [WOMEN] Lewis, Alfred Allan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670858102
- ISBN 13
- 9780670858101
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Biography, Women, Elisabeth Marbury (1856 to 1933), Elsie De Wolfe (1865-1950), Anne Tracy Morgan (1873 to 1952), Anne Harriman Vanderbilt (1862? to 1940), Literary agents - United States - biography, Theatrical producers and directors - United States - B
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Women & Women's Studies; Biography;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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