New York: Doubleday. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. HC has light edgewear/corner bumping. There is some spotting and a stain on top edge. Interior pages are tight and have no markings other than a name written on first endpage, but the stain on the top edge affects the top corner edge of quite a few pages and part way down the edge and spine edge of back inside cover. The stain is fairly unobtrusive on the interior pages, but does affect the last couple pages and inside back cover. Cover other than a few tiny bits of paper where it was lightly stuck to the DJ. DJ has age yellowing, minor edgewear and several tiny tears & chips, light soiling/staining all around, water (? ) stain mark on spine, price clipped. 284 pages. SUMMARY: "Carol Erwin is no doubt, the last of a lusty breed of American women who wielded great power in the South and Southwest boom towns after World War I - the madams of the disorderly houses. Her candid autobiography is a raucous adventure that begins in America's great open spaces and takes us to Alaska - a story of dire poverty and eventual success as the most prosperous madam of them all......"; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall .

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Bookseller: Riverwood's Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7365
Title: THE ORDERLY DISORDERLY HOUSE
Author: Erwin, Carol; with Miller, Floyd
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1960
Bookseller catalogs: Biography - Historical; Collectible - Biography; Cultures - U.S;

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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