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Lot 132
Sale 5657 - Books and Manuscripts
Sep 23, 2021
6:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$300 -
500
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$1,260
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Lot Description
[Society & Culture] Aarons, Slim A Wonderful Time, An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life
New York, etc: Harper & Row, Publishers, no date (1974). First edition. 4to. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, upper front and rear boards affected by damp; all edges trimmed; in original pictorial dust-jacket, scattered wear and soiling, upper panels affected by damp, price sticker on front wrapper.
From the library of Philadelphia jeweler Douglas Cooper whose Jamaican home is featured in the book, and with two tear sheets of ads for his family business, F.J. Cooper Inc., plus two color family photos, laid in.
Copies belonging to the families represented in this volume rarely appear on the market.