BLACK OXEN
by GERTRUDE ATHERTON
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NEW YORK: BONI AND LIVERIGHT, 1923 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Horn) , 1857-1948, American writer, b. San Francisco. She wrote a series of historical novels about California, which include The Californians (1898), Rezánov (1906), and The Ancestors (1907). Her most popular books are The Conqueror (1902), which is a fictionalized biography of Alexander Hamilton, and the sensational novel Black Oxen (1923), concerning a woman who is rejuvenated by a glandular operation and based on Atherton's own experience of glandular therapy. A GREAT AUTHOR AND EARLY WOMEN'S AUTHOR. BLACK OXEN WAS HER MOST POPULAR NOVEL. THIS BOOK IS STILL IN GOOD CONDITION WITH SOME OUTER WEAR ON THE COVER AND EDGES. MARBLING IS AROUNG PAGE EDGES AND IS A LITTLE FADED. BLACK COVER, ORANGE ON FRONT AND SPINE. SIGNED BY FORMER OWNER IN FRONT. TIGHT. GREAT COLLECTOR ITEM. PRINTED FEBRUARY 1923. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.
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- Bookseller
- Antique Books Den (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000540
- Title
- BLACK OXEN
- Author
- GERTRUDE ATHERTON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Publisher
- BONI AND LIVERIGHT
- Place of Publication
- NEW YORK
- Date Published
- 1923
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- GERTRUDE ATHERTON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Famous Authors; Miscellaneous;
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