Erlich Lillian (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 6th ed. , very sl shelf wear, sl spotting at spine. Illustrated w/portrait gallery of jazz greats. ; 181 pages.

Condition: Fair. 1963. No Edition Remarks. 181 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Front free endpaper is missing. Pen markings to front pastedown. Water marks to hinges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Heavy splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear and tape marks to spine and boards.

Condition: Good. Ex library. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear, minor tears and loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, vintage book on American career women from 1959 (when 99% of women got married out of high school and had children). 178 pp. Shows light reading wear but clean and unmarked. Illustrated with photographs. Discusses 15 career women of the time including Georgia O'Keefe, Margaret Mead, Frances Perkins, Helen Hayes, Clare Booth Luce, Babe Didrikson etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good -. 5th printing. xii, [2], 178 p., [16] p. of black-and-white photographs; 21 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. Upper corners of pages 103-6 were trimmed incorrectly without loss of text. Dust jacket has portraits of the 18 subjects on the back section. "Makers of Our Modern World" -- at head of front section of dust jacket. Eleanor Clymer's name and address (the Quadrangle, Haverford, Pa.) are stamped on a yellow slip attached to the front free endpaper. Eleanor Clymer (1906-2001) is best known as the author of 58 children's books published from 1943 to 1983. In Modern American Career Women, she and journalist Lillian Erlich present biographical essays about 18 American women who broke from the past in establishing successful careers in many different fields. The subjects are: Lillian Gilbreth, Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, Frances Perkins, Anne O'Hare McCormick, Georgia O'Keeffe, Malvina Hoffman, Katharine F. Lenroot, Dorothy Shaver, Margaret Chase Smith, Helen B. Taussig, Mary Honor Donlon, Helen Hayes, Margaret Mead, Clare Boothe Luce, Pauline Frederick, Agnes de Mille, Jacqueline Cochran, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias. In the 1990s Clymer moved from Katonah, N.Y., to Haverford, Pa. Scarce. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: pages edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: spine is faded; lightly rubbed and soiled; solid.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Jacket is shelf worn with a few small closed tears, chips and creases. Boards remain tidy with little edge rub. Binding is secure. No inscriptions or annotations. Presents well in cellophane. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: BE. Paris, broché, couverture illustr; in-12, 207 pp. Bon état.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The author traced the growth of jazz through the lives of the players themselves-Leadbelly, Big Bill Broonzy, W. C. Handy, Satchmo, Bessie Smith, Bix Beiderbecke, Goodman, Ella, Dizzy, Bird, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davies & many more. Illustrated with 'B&W' photos. /// This is a 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket in good condition-the dustjacket is rubbed along the edges & it has small peices of it missing & theres been a sticky label on the back of the 'D/J'. (181 pages & 16 pages of photos).

Pagine: 181 Peso: 500 Misure: 21,5x15cm Libro ben conservato con tracce del tempo sulla sovra copertina, che presenta dei piccoli strappi, opera buona.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fourth printing. 181pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Slightly cocked spine and some page toning thus very good in a good only dust jacket with creasing, toning, and tiny tears. Inscribed by the author.