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Copyright
Copyright© 1998 by The Estate of Jessica Mitford
Copyright © 1963, 1978 by Jessica Mitford
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1998, and in very different form as The American Way of Deathby Simon & Schuster, New York, in 1963, and revised in 1978.
Vintage Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Mitford, Jessica, 1917–1996
The American way of death revisited / by Jessica Mitford. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Undertakers and undertaking—United States. 2. Funeral rites and ceremonies—Economic aspects—United States. 3. Mitford, Jessica, 1917–1996, The American Way of Death.
I. Title.
HD9999.U53U554 1998
338.4′736375′0973—dc21 97-49349
eISBN: 978-0-307-80939-1
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