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Mammy Pleasant
de Holdredge, Helen
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good+/VG-/G+
- Librería
-
La Mesa, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1953. Second Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/VG-/G+. Constructed from documentary data, journals, & diaries, this is the intriguing, true story of the mysterious Mammy Pleasant, a woman of color who arrived in the city from New Orleans, where she had been a "voodoo queen.'' Throughout the Gold Rush era, she operated a boarding house/house of ill repute there, providing both white & black girls for wealthy male patrons, & running many other shady schemes on the side. In 311 pages with Bibliography + 8 pages of black-and-white photos. Orig. published in 1953, this is the Second Impression, third printing. Bound in quarter blue cloth, spine lettered in lighter blue, with blue patterned paper-covered boards, this hardcover octavo is in VG+ condition: very clean, dust dulling to outside page edges, binding strong & straight, pages lightly tanned but completely unmarked. Very slight corner bumping. The price-clipped DJ is VG-/Good+, with light chipping & creasing all around; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 023511
- Título
- Mammy Pleasant
- Autor
- Holdredge, Helen
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- VG-/G+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Second Edition 3rd Printing
- Editorial
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1953
- Palabras clave
- San Francisco California voodoo witchcraft women prostitution madam boardinghouse slavery slaves thomas bell Gold rush
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Autobiography-Biography-Journals-Letters; Women's-Men's-Gender Studies/Feminism/LBGTQA; Californiana;
Términos de venta
Gargoyle Books
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Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
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- Octavo
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
