PURPLE PASSAGE, the Life of Mrs Frank Leslie
by Madelaine B Stern
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Tinted top edges, VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD clipped dust jacket
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma 1970 Hardcover, 21cms x 14½cms (8¼" x 5¾"), with dust jacket Tinted top edges, VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD clipped dust jacket Second printing of original 1953 edition. Mrs Frank Leslie was an extraordinary combination of eighteenth-century grande dame and twentieth-century executive, ablaze with diamonds and elaborately draped in a costume of the mauve decade. From her performance on the stage with Lola Montez to an amazing journalistic coup that changed the fortunes of a famous publishing house, she was a passionate, colorful, dauntless woman who electrified her contemporaries. Includes 16 b&w illustrations
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42935
- Title
- PURPLE PASSAGE, the Life of Mrs Frank Leslie
- Author
- Madelaine B Stern
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 21cms x 14½cms (8¼" x 5¾"), with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Tinted top edges, VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD clipped dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma
- Date Published
- 1970
- Pages
- 282 pages
- Keywords
- Biography Mrs Frank Leslie magazines New Orleans
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