From the author of Now Voyager and Stella Dallas! Bobbie: General Manager is a perfectly enjoyable glimpse into the life of an upper middle-class teen age girl whose family has begun to struggle during the Gilded Age. At once funny, honest, and very well written.
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From the author of Now Voyager and Stella Dallas! Bobbie: General Manager is a perfectly enjoyable glimpse into the life of an upper middle-class teen age girl whose family has begun to struggle during the Gilded Age. At once funny, honest, and very well written.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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First U.k. Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp.354. Romantic Fiction. Neat name and inscription on front pastedown: 'To Dear Auntie, With love and wishing you Many Happy Returns of the Day. Flo. ' Loosely inserted a small sepia photograph of two women seated on a garden bench. The older woman is in an earlier period of dress and has an open book on her lap. Olive Higgins Prouty (1882&endash; 1974) was an American novelist and poet, best known for her 1922 novel Stella Dallas and her pioneering consideration of psychotherapy in her 1941 novel 'Now, Voyager. ' Very good. Spine slightly faded otherwise clean.
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Good; No jacket. 1913 Frederick A. Stokes. First Edition. First printing. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Early novel by the author of Stella Dallas and Now, Voyager. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with paper color illustration on the front cover with gold highlights and an illustrated peacock feather border. Cover depicts a young woman sitting on a window seat and writing; there is a No Trespassing sign near her feet. Color frontispiece with tissue guard; four additional color plates. Illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Title page has an illustrated floral border. 354 pages. Covers have moderate edge wear and surface rubbing, with some small stains and scuffs. The illustration on the front cover is chipped and rubbed, with a small area of loss at the border. The front free endpaper had been torn out. Both hinges cracked, some webbing showing, not broken. Pages lightly tanned, more so at periphery, but still supple. Page edges lightly soiled and nicked. NO highlighting or other markings. A few pages have small light stains, mostly in the margins. The tissue guard on the frontispiece has several creases. Small bookstore sticked on rear endpaper. Dust jacket is missing. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Third edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few very shallow chips. Teenage girl must manage her large, motherless family, eventually has to manage her own romances. Early novel by the author of *Stella Dallas, * and *Now, Voyager*. Very scarce in jacket.