New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Very clean charcoal gray boards with black cloth spine, bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 432 pgs. with index. Illustrated. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. As new condition. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. True crime story of the life and death of a prostitute in nineteenth-century New York. Large 8vo. True Crime..

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Patricia Cline Cohen is Professor of History and Acting Dean of the Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1991 to 1996 she chaired the Women's Studies Program there. She is the author of A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America (1985) and of numerous articles and reviews, and a coauthor of The American Promise (1997). From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 013353
Title: The Murder of Helen Jewett
Author: Cohen, Patricia Cline
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
ISBN 10: 0679412913
ISBN 13: 9780679412915
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1998
Keywords: TRIALS MURDER PROSTITUTES NEW YORK TRUE CRIME
Bookseller catalogs: Mystery/Crime; Women; New York City;

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