The mauve decade : American life at the end of the nineteenth century /
Laced with anecdotes and sparkling epigrams, Beer's remarkable cultural history encompasses a witty study of the Gilded Age's last decade-from high society to the closing of the West-bracketed by Emerson's death and Teddy Roosevelt's presidential election.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
MCMXXVI [1926]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Laced with anecdotes and sparkling epigrams, Beer's remarkable cultural history encompasses a witty study of the Gilded Age's last decade-from high society to the closing of the West-bracketed by Emerson's death and Teddy Roosevelt's presidential election. |
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| Item Description: | "Of the first edition ... one hundred and sixty five large paper copies have been printed as follows: fifteen on Borzoi rag paper signed by the author and numbered from A to O: one hundred and fifty copies on Borzoi rag paper signed by the author and numbered from 1 to 150. This is number ..."--Preliminary page. Issued in slipcase. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture; is number 99 and is signed by the author. The Cushing Library/Dykes copy [A1485349029C] is part of the Jim & Theresa Earle Collection. |
| Physical Description: | 268 pages, 1 leaf ; 23 cm Also issued online. |
| Bibliography: | "Preface addressed to all readers born after 1900 A.D." (bio-bibliographical) : p. 7-12. |