Bookends: two women, one enduring friendship
by Rostenberg, Leona and Madeleine Stern
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Near Fine
- Seller
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Spray, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Free Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. One of the more affecting memoirs of bookselling around by the incomparable duo of New York-based bookselling. Unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. 246 pp., and with some lovely black-and-white photographs. Laid in is also a card expressing great love for the former owner, and both appear to know the authors, Leona and Stern. Penned inscription, too.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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- Bookseller
- Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 347886
- Title
- Bookends: two women, one enduring friendship
- Author
- Rostenberg, Leona and Madeleine Stern
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Leona Rostenberg|Madeleine Stern|booksellers|bookselling
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About the Seller
Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.
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Spray, Oregon
About Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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