BAGHDAD:1951 (SIGNED)
by CAEN, Herb
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Nevada City, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 120 pp. SIGNED by Herb Caen in ink on the front free endpaper: "Greetings! Herb Caen". The dust jacket features a photograph of a young, dapper Herb Caen standing on a San Francisco rooftop. POS on front pastedown and free front endpaper. Cloth. Small octavo. From the jacket: "A new portrait of an old favorite--San Francisco--by the author of BAGHDAD-BY-THE-BAY". In the inimitable Caen style. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket (slight edgewear)now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail. to any United States address.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hardy Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2778
- Title
- BAGHDAD:1951 (SIGNED)
- Author
- CAEN, Herb
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- San Francisco under "C"California, Western Americana, Newspapers,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books; San Francisco; All Things Californian;
Terms of Sale
Hardy Books
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About the Seller
Hardy Books
Biblio member since 2008
Nevada City, California
About Hardy Books
Hardy Books is a rare and out-of-print book and ephemera seller located in Nevada City, California, in the heart of the California Northern Mines Gold Country. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) and follow the IOBA Code of Ethics.
Our specialties are Californiana, Western Americana, Books About Books, Fine Press, Original Posters and Movie books, photos and ephemera.
Our specialties are Californiana, Western Americana, Books About Books, Fine Press, Original Posters and Movie books, photos and ephemera.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...