Author: BOK, EDWARD W. (AUTHOR); LEWIS, W. DAVID (EDITOR)
Title: The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After (Lakeside Classics No. 98)
Description: Chicago: Lakeside Press/R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company, 2000. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A Lakeside Classic edition, presenting the autobiography of Edward W. Bok (1863-1930). Born in the Netherlands, he immigrated to the United States as a child and went on to be a successful author and editor of Ladies Home Journal. Mr. Bok is credited with inventing the term "living room". --- This deluxe edition edited and introduced by W. David Lewis. Includes a frontis photographic portrait of Bok, several additional illustrations and photos. --- Number 98 in a series of annually published works continuously produced since 1903 by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, owners of the Lakeside Press. The books were not made available for sale by the publisher; rather, they were given as gifts to employees, vendors and customers at Christmastime. --- In full dark brown cloth-covered boards w/publisher's device on cover and titling on spine, all in gilt; top edge gilt. Lacks the glassine wrapper. --- A bright, clean, firm copy but with a hint of dusty soiling to covers.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; lix, 459 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>American Society, Life in the Us
Title: The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After (Lakeside Classics No. 98)
Description: Chicago: Lakeside Press/R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company, 2000. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A Lakeside Classic edition, presenting the autobiography of Edward W. Bok (1863-1930). Born in the Netherlands, he immigrated to the United States as a child and went on to be a successful author and editor of Ladies Home Journal. Mr. Bok is credited with inventing the term "living room". --- This deluxe edition edited and introduced by W. David Lewis. Includes a frontis photographic portrait of Bok, several additional illustrations and photos. --- Number 98 in a series of annually published works continuously produced since 1903 by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, owners of the Lakeside Press. The books were not made available for sale by the publisher; rather, they were given as gifts to employees, vendors and customers at Christmastime. --- In full dark brown cloth-covered boards w/publisher's device on cover and titling on spine, all in gilt; top edge gilt. Lacks the glassine wrapper. --- A bright, clean, firm copy but with a hint of dusty soiling to covers.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; lix, 459 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>American Society, Life in the Us
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 81952
- Book number: 81952