American Beauty by Lois W. Banner - 1983-02-12

Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1983. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text.

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Alfred A. Knopf, February 1983. Hardcover . Good/Fair. Jacket clipped, lightly dampstained and edgeworn, with several closed tears; wrapped for future preservation.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1983. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "Drawing on memoirs, etiquette books, contemporary novels, and popular histories of the musical and theatrical stage, Lois W. Banner chronicles how women looked (and how they felt about how they looked) and how they wanted to look . . . Here are the changing vogues ... American clothes as a revelation of sexual attitudes . . . the shifting models of American beauty ... illustrated with 16 pages of photographs." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The fashionables; Beauty as business: the early development of the commercial beauty culture; The ideal woman: the steel-engraving lady; The underside of fashion; The feminist challenge and fashion's response; The voluptuous woman: from Bouguereau to the British blondes; The voluptuous woman in eclipse: Lillian Russell, Lillie Langtry, and the advance of naturalness; The Gibson girl;… Read More

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