Flaneuse Women Walk City by Elkin Lauren, First Edition (3 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st edition. 8vo, 317 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition; First Printing. International orders may require additional postage. ; Full number line. ; 336 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Flâneur: an idle stroller, killing time. The flâneur was born in 19th-century Paris, his native habitat the boulevards and arcades of Haussmann s newly redesigned city. Although men had always enjoyed the practice of loafing through city streets with no particular object, just enjoying the scene, women had long been prevented, culturally and practically, from going out alone. In this enjoyable memoir-cum-cultural history, Lauren Elkin calls upon the female spirit of idle strolling. First printing, like new. book.