"Those Harper Women: A Novel" by Stephen Birmingham, published by McGraw-Hill. First BC edition (1964) with "Book Club Edition" imprinted on the front flap of the dust jacket. Four generation story of a sugar dynasty on a Caribbean island, and the price the women of the family paid for the fortune they inherited.

Original dust jacket [edge wear and creases, a little soiling: see photos]; faux leather hard boards; 5.1/2" x 8.1/2"; 285 pages on cream-color paper, very good condition.

Stephen Gardner Birmingham (1929-2015) was an American author known for his social histories of wealthy American families, often focusing on ethnicity - Jews (his "Jewish trilogy": Our Crowd, The Grandees, The Rest of Us), African-Americans (Certain People), Irish (Real Lace), and the Anglo-Dutch (America's Secret Aristocracy). Birmingham is credited for creating the literary genre of social histories.

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