beach marjorie m (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the presumed first hard cover edition (no explicit edition or printing statement, though the dates on the title and copyright pages correspond: 1963) in a like (not clipped) dust-jacket. Signed by Marjorie M. Beach of the front free endpaper. Some faint foxing to the endpapers and the page edges of the volume. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding bright and fresh in appearance. Moderate wear and fraying at the extremities of the jacket. A sharp copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. HB Signed inscription from the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper as follows: "For Muriel who has | my great admiration for | her understanding of | flowers. | With love | Marjorie M. Beach." 8vo. x, 1-210p. Rear turn-in of the dust jacket has a black and white drawing of Marjorie Beach. Green cloth with gilt letters on the spine. Just hints of wear to extremities, cloth clean and bright, gilt very slightly dulled, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket missing a few chips around the edges but not price-clipped. Marjorie Marshall Beach (1907-2005) also wrote THE FIRST SEED (1963). THE MAYOR'S WIFE is the true story of Albert Beach who fought the Pendergast machine again and again. It is also his wife's story. It is a living testament to the undying spirit of the finest type of Americanism." [from the dust jacket] Albert Isaac Beach (1883 -1939) was THE Republican mayor of Kansas City, Missouri from 1924 to 1930 the last before the first City Manager was inaugurated. . The first city manager Henry F. McElroy took office in 1926 with the backing of big city boss Thomas Pendergast. McElroy took over Beach's office and he was relegated to a small office. The city manager government was to mark the zenith of Pendergast power., A book for these times if ever there was one! Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardback. Green cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo., 264 pp. Warmly inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Edges of text block show some soiling, upper corners bumped, no marks in book, binding solid. In dust jacket that shows some shelf wear, minor chipping. World travels in 1939, by the wife of the mayor of Kansas City. Book condition VG- in VG- DJ. Binding: HB.

Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Presentation copy signed on the half-title. Signed by Author.

Condizione: Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on front free endpage. (voyages around the world, India, Japan, China, Africa).