Ostier, Marianne

JEWELS AND THE WOMAN: THE ROMANCE, MAGIC, AND ART OF FEMININE ADORNMENT [Signed]

New York: Horizon Press, 1958. First Edition. Octavo, 320 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In full yellow cloth binding. Jacket is red with gold lettering, wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Scuffing to sleeve. Jacket shows some rubbing wear and small closed tears along the edges. Small scuffs to the back cover. Chipping at the head of the spine and very lightly at the fore corners. Small closed tear in jacket over the front joint. Small scratch on jacket spine. Wrinkling to top corner of rear flap. Price unclipped: "$7.50". Boards are rubbed along edges and at the corners. Sunning/toning to top and bottom edges. Faint scuff on back cover. Text block is moderately age toned, with some scuffing to top edge. Interior clean. Inscribed to Susan Sheehan by Ostier on front flyleaf: "For Susan, wife, fondest regards and very good wishes / Sept. 1961 / Marianne O.". Shelved in Room F.

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Special Collections

Price: $300

NOTES

Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (born 1937) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.