The Gentlemen's Club: The Story of Prostitution in El Paso.
de FROST, Gordon H
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El Paso: Mangan Books, (1983). First Edition. The 'Parlor House Edition', limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Two volumes. The first volume is the text; 336 pp., illustrated and with a street map. Publisher's white cloth over lavender cloth, gilt cover and purple spine lettering, photographic endpapers, dust jacket (with a crease down rear panel as it was laid into the book since publication). The second volume is a matching portfolio containing a tape of the author's interviews with the working girls of El Paso. In this copy the previous owner has included 4 brothel tokens in a small envelope inside the portfolio volume. The tokens (presumably reproductions) are for the Uncle Sam Hotel of Yuma Arizona ($3 All Night token; '12 Beautiul Young Ladies to Assist you'); the Long Branch Saloon of Dodge City ("To Screw I Need You: Any Way Any Day, Girls from 5 Dollars to 50 dollars"); Honest Walt's Saloon of Tombstone ("Good for One Dollar in Trade; Girls, Whiskey, Tobacco"); and the Octoroon of Los Angeles ($3 All Night Check; Madame Bolanger; You Will Receive Sport Enough to Last for a Year to Come"). Complete with the white a purple garter and the miniature six shooter in its holster. The mini revolver is missingone pearl handle. A near fine copy.
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- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 70541
- Título
- The Gentlemen's Club: The Story of Prostitution in El Paso.
- Autor
- FROST, Gordon H
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- Usado
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- 1
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- Editorial
- Mangan Books
- Lugar de publicación
- El Paso
- Fecha de publicación
- (1983)
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- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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Portland, Oregon
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Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.
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