Mama Made Minks

[light shelfwear only, very slight deterioration to cloth at top edge of front cover, major discoloration to front endpaper (probably from an old laid-in newspaper clipping, no longer present); the jacket shows just a touch of edgewear, if you squint at it]. Memoir of a family fur business in New York, run by the author's Jewish immigrant parents -- but mostly by her entrepreneurial Mother (yes, capital M, always), "a gem of wit, wisdom, and wily determination who could successfully remodel the mangiest old ermine, get the best of a pretty customer who had too much of a way with Papa, give advice to the lovelorn, and ferret out the secret of a competitor's sudden prosperity." Jewish-immigrant-in-New York narratives almost inevitably take place on the Lower East Side -- but F.M. Sandberg, Reliable Furriers was located well uptown, on upper Madison Avenue in Harlem.

Product Info

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Year: 1964

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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