About this title: "Joe" Carstairs was born in London in 1900, the daughter of a Scottish colonel and an American heiress. She was educated in Connecticut and returned to Europe in 1916, to drive ambulances for the Women's Legion in France. She deserted her husband at the church door (marriage having been a prerequisite of her coming into her $4 million inheritance) and settled in England, where she took up motor-boat racing, winning many trophies, and established a boatyard at Cowes. In the 1930s Carstairs began to travel the world and eventually settled in the West Indies, where she bought the island of Whale ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780670880188ISBN:0670880183
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780670880188ISBN:0670880183
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 241 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Penguin, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780670880188ISBN:0670880183
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Book is in excellent condition. DJ is in very good condition with slightly scuffed cover. The story of Marion "Joe" Carstairs, a notorious cross-dresser who favored women and smoked cheroots. Supremely self-confident, she inherited a Standard Oil fortune and knew how to spend her money-on fast boats and cars, on her female lovers, and on a Caribbean Island, Whale Cay, where she reigned over a colony of Bahamians. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking, New York
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780670880188ISBN:0670880183
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom page edges otherwise a very nice copy. Jacket enclosed in removable archival cover. First printing. (alk. paper) p. cm. First American Edition read more
Edition: Stated 1st American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780670880188ISBN:0670880183
Description: Photo Illustrated. Fine in Fine jacket. This 4.5"x7.5" hard cover book has a color illustrated dj with green, blue and white lettering on the front and spine of the dj. A biography on the speedboat racer, Marion Joe Carstairs. Black and white photo illustrations within the book. 241 pages. read more
"I found Jo Carstairs interesting but not very likable. She certainly had her admirers. This book made me wish I could afford to be a beloved eccentric. At my net worth, unfortunately, this kind of behavior would get me institutionalized, rather than adored."
"ohmiGOd, you hAVE to find this book and read it. this book is truly bizarre and awesome. it chronicles the true story of this wealthy butch lesbian who sailed boats in the earlier part of the 1900s, bought her own island to live on and was a total womanizer, but here's the best part-her companion for life was this weird little doll she named Lord Todd Wadley who she dressed in crazy outfits and did like, glamour shots with. she was obsessed with this doll and you're never quite sure if she went through women so often because none of them measured up to Lord Todd Wadley, or if she wished she was L.T.W. (in this gender-jealous peter pan type way). Or both (in that Narcissus way). in any case, it's a fascinating read, and you won't be disappointed."
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