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Madam Belle Brezing
by Buddy Thompson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Very Good/Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0961282401
- ISBN 13
- 9780961282400
- Seller
-
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Madam Belle Brezing. Buggy Whip Press (1st Edition, 1983). Hardcover with red cloth boards and gilt titles, with dust jacket. Dust jacket is in rough condition, with numerous small tears and chipping, sticker residue at the top of front cover, spine faded, and a 2" diagonal closed tear on the front, extending from the top of the spine. The book itself is in great shape; clean and unmarked; binding tight.
This is thoroughly researched and well written biography of Belle Brezing, Lexington, Kentucky's famous madam, who ran the most orderly of disorderly houses. She is said to be the inspiration for the madam in "Gone with the Wind." Few copies are in circulation.
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Details
- Bookseller
- heytotobooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 01262101KK
- Title
- Madam Belle Brezing
- Author
- Buddy Thompson
- Illustrator
- Lois Johannigman (Jacket), Carole Konther Granai (Pen and Ink Illustrations)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with red cloth boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0961282401
- ISBN 13
- 9780961282400
- Publisher
- Buggy Whip Press
- Place of Publication
- Lexington, KY
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8 x 11 x 1"
- Keywords
- Belle Brezing, Kentucky, Lexington
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Kentucky; Small Presses; Biography;
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Kansas City, Missouri
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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