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Rhubarb (Rudy Vallee bookplate)
by Smith, Allen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
£65.31£45.72
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Drawings by Leo Hershfield. Rudy Vallee Ex Libris personalized bookplate with his autopen signature and caricature portrait. Brilliant dark green decorated stamped cloth with light wear to the ends and corner tips; one corner bumped. Original dust jacket is price clipped, worn and chipped along the edge. xii, 301 pp. Rhubarb (1946), about a cat that inherits a professional baseball team, led to a 1951 film adaptation directed by Arthur Lubin. Vallee (1901-1986) was an American singer, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first celebrity pop stars and one of the first crooners; credited with inspiring Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Perry Como to model their voices on jazz instruments. ; 8vo .
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9046
- Title
- Rhubarb (Rudy Vallee bookplate)
- Author
- Smith, Allen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Rudy Vallee, Baseball Fiction, Satire-CATs, Cat Humor, American Baseball-Mascots, Baseball Superstition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian & Collectible Books; Film, Radio, Theater, Music; Games & Sports;
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- Fine
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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