The Tall Girl's Handbook
by Davenport, Gwen
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good: slight bumped corner, toning to endpapers, one spot of offeset in text block from inserted receipt bookmark,/good: rubbing and scuffing, age wear, NOT clipped ($3.50)
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday and Company, 1959. first edition. hardcover. very good: slight bumped corner, toning to endpapers, one spot of offeset in text block from inserted receipt bookmark,/good: rubbing and scuffing, age wear, NOT clipped ($3.50). Polly Bolian. Tall 8vo. 185pp. from front flap: "[THE] [T]here has never been a book on the problems and pleasures facing the really tall young woman. Here it is, at last! [A]dvice--sensible and lighthearted--on all the wonderful ways in which a girl can delight in being tall. [L]ively anecdotes which show how the number of long-stemmed American Beauties is increasing every year. [L]ong-needed admonitions to parents and friends whose humorous (and envious) remarks can be devastating. . . . " #00802.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 719
- Title
- The Tall Girl's Handbook
- Author
- Davenport, Gwen
- Illustrator
- Polly Bolian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: slight bumped corner, toning to endpapers, one spot of offeset in text block from inserted receipt bookmark,
- Jacket Condition
- good: rubbing and scuffing, age wear, NOT clipped ($3.50)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- humor, tall, first edition, non fiction
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
small online used bookstore based in Chattanooga, TN. Little bit of everything, but lots of modern first editions.
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