beach marjorie marshall (3 risultati)

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).

hardcover. Condizione: Good.

LeatherBound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 234. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1953 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 234.