MAMMY PLEASANT'S PARTNER by Holdredge, Helen - 1954

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket. Original price of $4.50 is still present on front flap. DJ shows scuffing and toning along with edge and corner chips/small tears. Decorative boards underneath are clean with only minor edge bumping. The internal binding is good in text pages are tight. No signatures or bookplates, no library markings. The only evidence of handwriting found in the book is in the upper corner of the front end page where there is very faint indentations from where a price was once penciled. Paper is toned due to age with some minor foxing present to the end pages and pastedowns.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1954). Hardcover. Decorative paper boards, black cloth spine with rose lettering, 8 pages of illustratons in inserted section. Purple dust jacket wiht portraits of Mammy Pleasant and Thomas Bell. This copy signed by the author below her name on the title page. ; 5-3/4" x 8-1/2"; vii, 300 pp; Signed by Author; Lightly bumped at spine ends, clean and unmarked apart from noted signature. Jacket edgeworn and rubbed along folds, not price clipped ($4.50), in clear protective cover. .

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. No edition remarks. 300 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.

New York: G. P. Putnam, 1954. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition in original unclipped jacket. Clean decorated paper covered boards with black cloth spine, pink lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Brief previous owner inscription dated 1954 neatly penned on front free endpaper. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 300 pages with Bibliography and References. Dust jacket is not price clipped (4.50 on front inside flap), has some fading to spine, short closed edge tears and small creases. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Biography of Thomas Frederick Bell, partner of the notorious mulatto woman, Mammy Pleasant, and their lives in San Francisco during the mid to late 1800s..

N.Y: Putnam's, [1954]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition in Very good jacket, in protective mylar. Signed by the author on title page. 300 pp., 8vo; black cloth spine over patterned boards, in dust jacket; black & white photographs, reproductions. Jacket with occassional light wear to eges; two closed tears, up to 1.5" top front edge from spine, and leading corner

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. No DJ. Signed by the author below her name on the title page. Previous owner name stamped on front free page: Dr. Vernon Victor Casey. No other markings in book. Binding is tight.

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. VG. 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition quarter bound in black cloth and decorated boards. A Ver y Good copy in a Good dust jacket. Rubs/frays to the book's corners. N ame and address inked on the rear endpaper. Rubbing to the spine. Two faint tape ghosts to front endpaper and fly leaf's bottom corners. The dust jacket is chipped at the base of the spine. Fraying at its head. The front panel has a tear and creasing at its lower edge. Short edge tears to the panels. Dusting to the rear panel. Signed by Holdredge o n the title page. There is an inked inscription on the front fly that reads "To Betty/From Mamnie/Christmas 1954". .

NY: Putnam. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth-backed decorative boards. First edition. Inscribed to the ffep by Holdredge in the year of publication. PO bookplate. Slight bumping to points. P. 15 has a tear across bottom margin. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine, 3cm closed tear to rear panel, edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

New York, G.P. Putnam's Son [1954]., 1954. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with halftones. Pictorial dust jacket (unclipped). Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Life of Thomas Frederick Bell and his San Francisco adventures.. F. Hardcover.

Putnam. Collectible - Very Good/Good. 1954. First Edition/Signed By Author. Hard Cover. Signed by Author .