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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR002193483
Book Description Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Seller Inventory # M00719565510-G
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Seller Inventory # CHL6519506
Book Description No Binding. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 352pp. Kate Berridge tales a different perspective to the other authors who have written biographies of the famous creator of waxworks. In this book she looks at how the Tussaud brand image was built and survives today. This book has survived life in a library very well, although it has minimal stamps and stickers, the pages are clean, the binding sound and the dust jacket protected by a non-intrusive sleeve. All orders processed and shipped promptly from the UK, usually on the day they are received. Seller Inventory # 014793
Book Description Condition: Fine. 1st wedition. Imitation cloth, dj, F/F. xiv+352pp, 43 b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. A biography of Marie Tussaud & her famous Waxworks. 675 grams. Seller Inventory # 54816
Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages; Physical desc. : xii, 352 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: Tussaud, Marie (1761-1850) --Madame Tussaud's --History --Art / Sculpture --General --Modelling (in clay, wax and other plastic materials) --Biology. Summary: Madame Tussaud is a name known all over the world. The queue to her exhibition is a landmark. Such is its phenomenal success, it has eclipsed the woman who started it all. But Marie Tussaud led a remarkable life. With grit and audacity she overcame reversals of fortune and built an extraordinary spectacle. Of lowly birth and uncertain paternity, Marie became apprentice to a charismatic showman in Paris who taught her the art of wax modelling. They plied their trade among a colourful cast of 'Italian singers, pastry cooks, restaurant keepers, marionettes, acrobats, giants, dwarves, ferocious beasts'. In her memoir she also claimed friendship with royals and revolutionaries including Marie Antoinette and Voltaire. But, as a born entrepreneur, did Marie's flair for publicity extend to moulding her own story After the Revolution, she came to England and took her show on the road. She pursued the punishing lifestyle of the travelling show for many years and secured a lasting reputation in the Dickensian world of 19th century popular entertainment. More than a biography, this captivating cultural history plunges the reader into popular culture of the past; the escapist delights of canine cabaret, living skeletons, phantasmagoria and of course waxworks. It reveals a truth that Madame Tussaud understood and harnessed from the outset - the mass-market appeal of glamour and gore is enduring and universal. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 155906
Book Description 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 352pp, illustrated, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0719565510. Seller Inventory # 661961
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This book is in near fine shape. Red paper quarter binding with gilt lettering on spine. Boards are a soft taupe with publishers "WM" imprint. Clean red end papers. Binding is square and tight. Only defect is as stated below. No remainder marks save one pen mark on bottom text block. Fore edge is uneven. Seller Inventory # 001608
Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages; Physical desc. : xii, 352 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: Tussaud, Marie (1761-1850) --Madame Tussaud's --History --Art / Sculpture --General --Modelling (in clay, wax and other plastic materials) --Biology. Summary: Madame Tussaud is a name known all over the world. The queue to her exhibition is a landmark. Such is its phenomenal success, it has eclipsed the woman who started it all. But Marie Tussaud led a remarkable life. With grit and audacity she overcame reversals of fortune and built an extraordinary spectacle. Of lowly birth and uncertain paternity, Marie became apprentice to a charismatic showman in Paris who taught her the art of wax modelling. They plied their trade among a colourful cast of 'Italian singers, pastry cooks, restaurant keepers, marionettes, acrobats, giants, dwarves, ferocious beasts'. In her memoir she also claimed friendship with royals and revolutionaries including Marie Antoinette and Voltaire. But, as a born entrepreneur, did Marie's flair for publicity extend to moulding her own story After the Revolution, she came to England and took her show on the road. She pursued the punishing lifestyle of the travelling show for many years and secured a lasting reputation in the Dickensian world of 19th century popular entertainment. More than a biography, this captivating cultural history plunges the reader into popular culture of the past; the escapist delights of canine cabaret, living skeletons, phantasmagoria and of course waxworks. It reveals a truth that Madame Tussaud understood and harnessed from the outset - the mass-market appeal of glamour and gore is enduring and universal. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 155906
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new copy. (see picture) 352 pages including index. Seller Inventory # 019210