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Our Own Baedeker
de KINKEAD, Eugene and Russell Maloney
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Fair
- Librería
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Fair. Carl Rose. Squarish 8vo. Pp. xiii, 281. Two-color maps and illustrations by Carl Rose. Introduction by Geoffrey Hellman. Half red cloth over gray paper covered boards, titles and illustrations stamped in gilt on the spine, illustration in blind on the cover, dark red topstain. Board edges minimally rubbed and faded, leaves very lightly age toned. In the color illustrated dust jacket, price clipped: edges chipped, closed tears to the front panel with old tape repairs verso. Collected entertaining New Yorker "Talk of the Town" pieces originally published in the magazine without bylines, with the addition of 240 humorous illustrations and ten pictorial maps. A lively, humorous take on the US military's worldwide forays during "the Big One." The illustrations by Carl Rose are excellent. Dust jacket preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 6728
- Título
- Our Own Baedeker
- Autor
- KINKEAD, Eugene and Russell Maloney
- Ilustrador
- Carl Rose
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fair
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Simon and Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1947
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Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2010
Seattle, Washington
Sobre Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Verso
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Leaves
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