Les Femmes aux Cigarettes (Women with Cigarettes)
by Lartigue, Jacques-Henri
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670311553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670311552
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1980. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Collection of 96 black-and-white photographs of women--all famous in music halls & theaters--indulging in the previously forbidden habit of smoking cigarettes in Paris in 1927. Brief biographies of each woman in rear. A fascinating slice of women's history when flappers first came into their own. A FIRST EDITION, first printing from 1980, this small square hardcover book has black paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to front & spine. Condition is VG+: completely clean, binding straight & strong. Bumped corners, modest rubbing to lower edges from shelf. The unclipped DJ is downgraded to Good due to minor edgewear all around, including moderate-heavy rubbing to extremities. Old price sticker on back cover, another area of sticker pull right above. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016740
- Title
- Les Femmes aux Cigarettes (Women with Cigarettes)
- Author
- Lartigue, Jacques-Henri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670311553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670311552
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- SMOKING TOBACCO WOMEN VICE FLAPPERS ACTRESS THEATER PARIS FRANCE FRENCH 1920S WOMENS RIGHTS FREEDOM CIGARETTES SIN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography-Photo Essays; Foreign (non-English) Language;
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- Rubbing
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