ONLY IN AMERICA
by Golden, Harry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good-/Fair to Good-
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1958. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. "Readers of Harry Golden have a tendency to become fanatical about him, to press him writings upon unwary friends with little compulsion to share his particular brand of whimsy and erudition. The only way to understand this phenomenon is to read Harry Golden." 317 pp. Green cloth covers with blue cityscape image on front cover and spine. DJ in Fair to Good- condition with large tears all over but especially to front, tears and chipping to edges and corners, browning throghout, jacket quite dirty. Cover corners and edges are rubbed and faded, some soiling to cover faces, spine loose, spine ends are bent and starting to fray. Green top page edge. Signed by author on front free endpaper. Front pages creased. Interior tight, clean. Book in VG- condition.. Signed by Author. Fifth Printing. Cloth. Very Good-/Fair to Good-. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Judaism.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007139
- Title
- ONLY IN AMERICA
- Author
- Golden, Harry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Fair to Good-
- Edition
- Fifth Printing
- Publisher
- The World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland and New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Short Stories, Journalism, Judiasm, Religion
- Bookseller catalogs
- Journalism/Writing;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
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About the Seller
Bee Creek Books
Biblio member since 2010
Princeton, New Jersey
About Bee Creek Books
Welcome to Bee Creek Books! We specialize in rare and out of print books in a variety of subjects (fiction to fishing, the arts to agriculture), old government documents, rare periodicals, vintage journals, no longer printed reports and quarterlies, classic maps and charts, photos, and much more!
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- Chipping
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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...
- Fair
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- New
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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