Beach marjorie marshall (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper as follows: "For Muriel who has | my great admiration for | her understanding of | flowers. | With love | Marjorie M. Beach." 8vo. x, 1-210p. Rear turn-in of the dust jacket has a black and white drawing of Marjorie Beach. Green cloth with gilt letters on the spine. Just hints of wear to extremities, cloth clean and bright, gilt very slightly dulled, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket missing a few chips around the edges but not price-clipped. Marjorie Marshall Beach (1907-2005) also wrote THE FIRST SEED (1963). THE MAYOR'S WIFE is the true story of Albert Beach who fought the Pendergast machine again and again. It is also his wife's story. It is a living testament to the undying spirit of the finest type of Americanism." [from the dust jacket] Albert Isaac Beach (1883 -1939) was THE Republican mayor of Kansas City, Missouri from 1924 to 1930 the last before the first City Manager was inaugurated. . The first city manager Henry F. McElroy took office in 1926 with the backing of big city boss Thomas Pendergast. McElroy took over Beach's office and he was relegated to a small office. The city manager government was to mark the zenith of Pendergast power., A book for these times if ever there was one. Inscribed by Author(s).…

hardcover. Zustand: Good.