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Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan
by Evans, Max
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0826327826
- ISBN 13
- 9780826327826
- Seller
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Datil, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Hardcover, [xxi], 315 pages. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. First edition. Size 9.25"x6.25". "The story of one woman's personal tragedies and triumphs as an orphan, a Harvey Girl waitress on the Santa Fe railroad, a prostitute with innumerable paramours, and a highly successful bordello businesswoman. Millie broke the mold in so many ways, and yet her life's story of survival was not unlike that of thousands of women who went West only to find that their most valuable assets were their physical beauty and their personality." Includes b&w photo illustrations. Book has light handling/shelfwear, and is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has moderate shelfwear.. Near Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Florida Mountain Book Co. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009481
- Title
- Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan
- Author
- Evans, Max
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0826327826
- ISBN 13
- 9780826327826
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Place of Publication
- Albuquerque, NM
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- WESTERN AMERICANA AMERICAN HISTORY BIOGRAPHY NEW MEXICO SILVER CITY PROSTITUTION 20TH TWENTIETH CENTURY
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Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Florida Mountain Book Co.
Biblio member since 2004
Datil, New Mexico
About Florida Mountain Book Co.
The Florida Mountains are located in southwestern New Mexico, near the U.S.-Mexico border. The Parsons family, proprietors of Florida Mountain Book Company, have been in the book business since 1996. Formerly the owners & operators of Readers' Cove Bookstore in Deming, New Mexico, beginning in May of 2012, we are now exclusively based on the internet.
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.