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The Second Seduction
by Lear, Frances (signed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679413456
- ISBN 13
- 9780679413455
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Appears unread. SIGNED IN FULL by the AUTHOR on the front endpaper ("Best Wishes" and her signature only; NOT personalized to anyone). See photos. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket would also be FINE but for just a touch of light rubbing. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NOT price clipped ($19.00). Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. First printing with "First Edition" so stated on the copyright page and NO indications of any other printing. Captivating memoir of Lear's life and career -- as a New York fashion executive; mother of two daughters; activist; magazine journalist; her loss of personal identity; memory of parental sexual abuse; manic-depressive illness; alcoholism; her husband, the celebrated Hollywood producer Norman Lear, etc. Bound in the original white boards with an off-white cloth spine, stamped in shiny silver. From the Dust Jacket: "Born to an unwed mother in a home for wayward girls, Frances Lear, founding editor-in-chief of LEAR'S magazine, has come to symbolize the success story of the American career woman... In this courageously revealing -- and occasionally shocking -- memoir... she speaks with utter frankness about the darker forces that have shaped her being..." . Signed by the Author. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 193pp.
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- Bookseller
- About Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015163
- Title
- The Second Seduction
- Author
- Lear, Frances (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679413456
- ISBN 13
- 9780679413455
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
- Size
- 193pp
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