The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds Tapa dura - 2009

Yale University Press, 2009. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780300127331

Hardback. Very Good.

Yale University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xiii, 248pp. A touch of shelfwear to pictorial dust jacket, else fine. Bound in full black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. A highly presentable first printing of this history of the Gonzales girls, a triad of sixteenth-century sisters genetically predisposed to unusual hirsutism who found popularity among the painters, scientists, and lovers of curiosities throughout Europe. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book tells the extraordinary story of three sixteenth-century sisters who, along with their father and brothers, were afflicted with an extremely rare genetic condition that made them unusually hairy. Amazingly, the Gonzales sisters were not mocked or shunned, but were welcomed in the courts of Europe, spending much of their lives among… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.