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Long, Long Ago
by Woollcott, Alexander
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: The Viking Press, 1943. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Viking Press, 1943. Early Reprint. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Binding of red cloth with gilt title panel on spine with red lettering, gilt author name is rubbed. An old man in glasses blind-stamped on the front--Woollcott himself! Red cloth has small discolored spots to front, and on rear cover along spine and slight wear to corners. Binding is tight and solid and square. Text block edges clean, no spotting. Pages are very clean and completely unmarked. lightly and evenly toned. The book states" The captions appearing at the head of each article are supplied, with apologies, by the Publishers. It was the author's intention to supply these himself, as he did in 'While Rome Burns', but they remained unwritten at the time of his death. b. 1887 d.1943. Woollcott was a very well-known American critic, commentator, and journalist. In this book he writes of many things: Friends and Neighbors -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sarah Barnhardt, Helen Hayes, Irving Berlin, etc; Ways That Are Dark -- Five Classic Crimes; Book markers -- Jane Austen, Barrie, Housman, etc. And much more. 280 pages. 9.4 x 6 inches. 1943, The Viking Press, New York, New York, USA
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028005
- Title
- Long, Long Ago
- Author
- Woollcott, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1943
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERARY CRITICISM SOCIAL COMMENTARY CRITICS COMMENTATORS
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- Literature;
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
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