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Gypsy by Gypsy Rose Lee
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883319953Author Gypsy Rose LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S... -
The G-String Murders by Gypsy Rose Lee
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Narrating the twisted tale of a backstage double murder, Gypsy Rose Lee, the queen of the striptease, provides a tantalising glimpse into the underworld of burlesque theatre in 1940s America. When... -
Lady of Burlesque: The Career of Gypsy Rose Lee by Robert Strom 9780786438266
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.15A brilliant woman who happened to disrobe for a living, Gypsy Rose Lee was commonly known as the "intellectual stripper." Born Rose Louise Hovick in 1911, she had meager beginnings, no formal... -
Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee by Noralee Frankel 9780199754335
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.62Hailed as an "endlessly fascinating biography of an extraordinary woman" (Daily Express) and "a page turner" (Independent), Noralee Frankel's lively biography illuminates the fascinating career of... -
The G-string Murders - Rights Sold No Not Use by Gypsy Rose Lee 9781558615038
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558615038Author Gypsy Rose LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Feminist Press at The City... -
February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn by Sherill Tippins 9780618711970
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618711970Author Sherill TippinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher... -
Gypsy: The Art of the Tease by Mark Crispin Miller 9780300164480
Booksplease Price: £27.47A revealing portrait of Gypsy Rose Lee, the "Striptease Intellectual" of 1930s burlesque A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the first-and the only-stripper... -
Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy Stephen M. Silverman 9780762482351
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85Lively, sophisticated, and filled with first-person tributes and glorious images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy lifts the curtain on a Broadway legend-a man who stood at the pinnacle of... -
Mama Rose's Turn: The True Story of America's Most Notorious Stage Mother by Carolyn Quinn 9781617038532
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.29Hers is the show business saga you think you already know--but you ain't seen nothin' yet. Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee, went down in theatrical history as ""The... -
Women Artists in Midcentury America: A History in Ten Exhibitions by Daniel Belasco 9781789148435
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £25.87In Women Artists in Midcentury America, readers embark on a journey spanning two decades, delving into the evolving social and artistic landscapes through the lens of all-women exhibitions. These... -
Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show by Rachel Shteir 9780195300765
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.93Striptease recreates the combustible mixture of license, independence, and sexual curiosity that allowed strippers to thrive for nearly a century. Rachel Shteir brings to life striptease's Golden... -
111 Places in Philadelphia That You Must Not Miss Brandon Schultz 9783740813765
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Come to Philadelphia for the arts. Stay to discover the city's lesser-known contributions to American culture. It is the birthplace of the political cartoon and the rich history that followed, a hub... -
Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Carson McCullers 9780299164447
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare , will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of... -
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life Richard Schoch 9781529947908
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.07'The song is you.'For fans of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim is one of the true titans - the genius who brought us Sweeney Todd and West Side Story, Into the Woods, and Company. With acclaimed... -
Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry Frank Walsh 9780300063738
Booksplease Price: £64.36During World War I, the Catholic church blocked the distribution of government-sponsored V.D. prevention films, initiating an era of attempts by the church to censor the movie industry. This book is... -
The Delmonico Way: Sublime Entertaining and Legendary Recipes from the Restaurant That Made New York by Max Tucci
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £24.40Located in the heart of Wall Street, Delmonico s has been shaping and shaking up New York City s restaurant scene for more than a century, weathering Prohibition, the stock market crash of 1929, and... -
The Costumes of Burlesque: 1866-2018 Coleen Scott 9781138742260
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.52The Costumes of Burlesque: 1866-2018 is the first volume to inclusively document burlesque costume from its birth in the 1860's through the global burlesque movement in 2018. This lushly illustrated... -
Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese by Dita Von Teese 9780060591670
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.06On one side, Dita Von Teese shares the beauty of the burlesque world, with bubblegum dreams and show tunes to strip to. Flip over for fantasies in fetish with dramatic costumes and the allure of... -
Alone Together: My Life with J. Paul Getty by Theodora Getty Gaston 9780062219718
Booksplease Price: £18.38Manhattan, 1935. It was love at first sight the night J. Paul Getty walked into the exclusive club The New Yorker and saw Teddy onstage, a beautiful blue-blooded debutante, singing torch songs. In... -
The Bathysphere Book: First Sight of the Ocean Depths by Brad Fox 9781662601903
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.44A gorgeous account of William Beebe's 1934 Bathysphere expedition, the first-ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly environment 3,024 feet below sea level. In the summer of 1934, aboard a ship... -
The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents by Laura Frost 9780231152723
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Aldous Huxley decried "the horrors of modern 'pleasure,'" or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible entertainment that could degrade or dull the mind. He and his contemporaries,... -
The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents by Laura Frost
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Aldous Huxley decried "the horrors of modern 'pleasure,'" or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible entertainment that could degrade or dull the mind. He and his contemporaries,... -
Your Beauty Mark: The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour by Dita Von Teese 9780060722715
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.20From burlesque show to fashion runway, magazine cover to web video, Dita Von Teese has undergone more strokes of red lipstick, bursts of hair spray, boxes of blue-black hair dye and pats of powder in...