My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grow
by Benchley, Robert
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
£32.38£22.67
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About This Item
New York & London: Harper & Brothers. Good. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Missing the dust jacket 361 pages. Illustrated (by Gluyas Williams.) Solid binding and hinges. Foxing and toned inside the covers and along the the edges; not involoving the text block. Sunned spine, modestly worn and bumped ends and corners. Considered on of Benchley's "most brilliant." A reviewer at the Baltimore Sun wrote. ""I have never been able to find much humor in the writings of Robert Benchley but I must say his latest book, My Ten Years In A Quandary And How They Grew, has caught my fancy and I do not hesitate to recommend it." Benchley is best remembered for his contributions to The New Yorker, where his essays, whether topical or absurdist, influenced many modern humorist; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9190
- Title
- My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grow
- Author
- Benchley, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- American Humor, Humor - Fiction - Animals, American Humorist
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film, Radio, Theater, Music; Humor & Satire;
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