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Modern Daughters - Conversations with Various American Girls and One Man by Black, Alexander - 1899

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Modern Daughters - Conversations with Various American Girls and One Man by Black, Alexander - 1899

Modern Daughters - Conversations with Various American Girls and One Man

by Black, Alexander

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust jacket. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/No Dust jacket. First Edition. Maroon cloth boards with decorative oval portrait in black and white on cover of a beautiful young woman, gold decoration; gold lettering on spine. Some fading to spine and upper board edges. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with gilt top edges. Silk endpapers, with tasteful previous owner bookplate at upper corner of front fixed endpaper, name and date (Dec. 25th, 1899) at top of front free endpaper. Frontis portrait of a second young girl with clean tissue guard.Designs and photographic illustrations by the author. 212 pages.



  • Bookseller Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition No Dust jacket
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  • Edition First Edition, First Printing
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1899
  • Keywords essays, American girls 19th century, Alexander Black, women, first edition

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by Alexander Black

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Hardcover. Good. 6.5" x 9.5" . Alexander Black. 1899 Hardcover clean with light shelfwear. Interior clean, binding secure. No jacket. 212 pages. Deckled edges. Hinges intact. Slight spine lean.Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box.
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Modern Daughters: Conversations with Various American Girls and One Man.

by Black, Alexander

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New York. : Charles Scribner’s Sons., 1899. . 1st Edition.. Hardcover, brick cloth, gilt spine title, cameo portrait on cover. . Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. . 8vo.. Photo illustrations by the author.
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Modern Daughters: Conversations with Various American Girls and One Man

by Alexander Black

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"MODERN DAUGHTERS" - Conversations with Various American Girls and One Man by Alexander Black. 1899; Charles Scribner's Sons; New York. The book contains numerous black and white photographs. Gilt top page edges. There are 10 "conversations" in all, including with a Debutante, a Left-Over Girl, a Gym Girl, a Heroine, a Clubwoman, a Cynic, a Chaperon, a Nice Man, an Engaged Girl, and a Bride.Condition:The salmon cloth color has faded on the spine, and along the top edges of the covers; sharp corners. Bright gilt top page edges. Nice interior - the pages are clean with only a smudge at the outer edge of page 22, and a small tear at the bottom edge of page 23. Overall the book is in Very Good condition.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 212pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Decorated cover with a photograph in an oval frame. Head and tail of spine and corners are bumped and rubbed with a small chip missing from tail of spine and top front corner. Side and bottom edges untrimmed. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs of the period. Binding in fair, interior in overall good+ condition.
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MODERN DAUGHTERS; Conversations with various American girls and one man. With designs and photographic illustrations by the author

by BLACK, Alexander

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NY: Scribner's, 1899. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 212. Brown cloth stamped in gilt, with applied paper portrait on front. TEG. Front hinge tender, carelessly opened, owner's name on flyleaf, cover somewhat faded and little worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w VG. Archly humorous. Black was a well-known photographer of women in the 1890s.
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